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AOL blocking Gmail
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:40:58 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Jim O'Donnell" <provost () georgetown edu> Date: April 24, 2006 5:05:08 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: AOL blocking Gmail Dave, just had a lively and interesting conversation with an AOL postmaster phone number. When they get reports from their users of spam from a given host, they start rate-limiting mail from that source. When a given source is huge, it's inevitable that there will be spam-marked mail from within that space, and even if it's just amateur users who mark as spam mail that comes to them that they don't want to see, whether it's spam or not: with two larger user bases, it can easily add up to a number of complaints that triggers aol's mechanism. So, net result, if you have a gmail account and try to write to aol.com addresses now, you will probably not get through immediately. You will probably get a message from google telling you that your message has been delayed and giving an aol postmaster address, http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421rlynw.html, that tells you that your site (i.e., Gmail) is being rate-limited and delayed inbound to aol. AOL's response to a complaint is to tell the Gmail user to tell Google that there's a problem. Clash of the titans? Jim O'Donnell ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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