AOL Postmaster issues

Chris Owen owenc at hubris.net
Mon Nov 19 16:54:02 UTC 2007


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On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:

> Our abuse department has been receiving e-mails daily with our  
> feedback loop with AOL about e-mails which were 'supposedly' sent  
> about a year ago.
>
> Does this mean that A) the message was sent almost year ago but was  
> not read and marked as spam until today? Or b) the "abuser" is  
> changing the date on the mail server which is messing with their  
> means of reporting it in their feedback loops? (the second one  
> doesn't seem likely, but if it is the case we would like to kick  
> this guy off of our network...)

Most likely this is A.  One of the many very frustrating things about  
the AOL feedback loop.

Chris

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