AOL holes again.

Peter van Dijk peter at dataloss.nl
Tue Mar 20 20:40:02 UTC 2001


On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:36:02PM -0500, ken harris. wrote:
> >If the MSNBC article is anywhere near correct (yeah, a big assumption) then
> >what AOL was doing was black-holing any "high-volume" source.  While that
> >is a noble goal, the fact that any mailing list would fall into that
> >category is pretty lame.
> 
> http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html#lists

This basically means AOL is violating the very spirit of SMTP - you
say '250 message accepted', and you deliver it to all recipients you
specified acceptance for, or produce bounces.

Greetz, Peter.




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