AOL scomp

Wed Mar 2 03:36:26 UTC 2005

Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> On March 1, 2005 at 14:17 jes at nl.demon.net (Jim Segrave) wrote:
>  > I don't understand this complaint - we process AOL TOS Notifications
>  > daily and I find perhaps 1 in a hundred or so are not valid complaints.
> 
> Here about 99% are not valid or interesting.
> 
> Which is to say, I had one small burst once caused by an infected
> customer machine which we got shut off fast and fixed.
> 
> The rest are virtually all just people on mailing lists hosted here
> sending each and every completely on-topic posting to TOS.
> 
> I suppose I should figure out some way to track them so I can boot
> them off those lists since AOL removes all identifying information.
> 

Apparently the ratio of valid/invalid AOL notifications is a usefull 
indicator on the cleanliness of the relevant network.

Some might suggest that large amounts of untrackable inaccurate 
complaints are themselves abuse.