Not to be alarmist...

Wed Apr 9 19:45:14 UTC 1997

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Richard Colella wrote:

> Could you be more specific?  I've been getting mail in and out of
> AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.

Hmm.. I just tried telnetting to [a-e].mx.aol.com and [ab].mr.aol.com
(those are what I got back as the MX' for 'aol.com'), and the ONLY one
that did't give connection refused was: 

taner at coredump:~ >telnet c.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.32...
Connected to emin28.mx.aol.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 emin28.mail.aol.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-2.0.0; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:42:15 -0400 (EDT)

hmm.. I just tried it again, and it refused me...

Looks like they may just be overloaded?

	-Taner
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