AOL scomp

Thu Feb 24 17:57:59 UTC 2005

	The whole thing is functionally inept. Our abuse department
constantly has to chase down users and half the time it turns out they
were sending email to their friends and the people at AOL reported the
mail as spam because half of the Internet population believes that any
email that they don't find interesting is spam, and that if you aunt
sends you a funny forward that isn't considered spam, and my abuse
department doesn't need to track down a 75 year old woman from
Zanesville, OH to tell her to knock it off.

But that's just my honest opinion.

-Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:40 PM
To: Matt Taber
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: AOL scomp 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:28:58 EST, Matt Taber said:
> It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in
lists.

Proof that any network management or security or anti-spam scheme that
implies
end users with functional neurons is doomed from the get-go.