AOL scomp

chuck goolsbee chucklist at forest.net
Thu Feb 24 18:18:35 UTC 2005


>It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists.

The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the 
user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account. 
Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.

And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal 
correspondence ... which I find weird.

>Ahh well -- this is a nice mechanism that AOL provides, IMO.

Agreed, though maybe they should look at SpamAssasin or Postini. Take 
their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow.

--chuck


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