WTF?? Was: AOL email concerns for pil.net (fwd)

Sun Jun 1 15:07:54 UTC 2003

up at 3.am wrote:
> 
> I just received 2 copies of this email from AOL's Postmaster, and it looks
> genuine.  We filter via SpamAssassin, but do not bounce spam or virii, but
> divert them to separate folders.
> 
> 2) Total percentage of bounces accepted by pil.net (lower than 90% acceptance):  74%

I think this one is cute. Do you reject AOL bounces or is someone doing 
a dictionary attack spoofing your domain with random usernames and the 
AOL system is unable to deliver the bounced email to your system. You'd 
think they'd filter out the "User unknown"'s.

-Jack