AOL scomp

Thu Feb 24 19:17:24 UTC 2005

chuck goolsbee wrote:

>
>> 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.

I believe one has an extra duty to be as strict as possible about 
accepting email to be forwarded to external parties:

Read: Setup for every usuable blocklist, including you own, which 
rejects email outright. And spamassassin setup to reject any reasonable 
low FP score threshold. And none of that  "tag em all and let the user 
sort it out" business.

Its not legitimate to cover your eyes and forward probable garbage to 
someone else. You want it on your system, thats your decision. AOL 
blocklisting high percentage garbage senders, including those merely 
forwarding, is perfectly valid in my book.

To blocklist all servers in the path or just the most recent one is a 
local decision