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RE: AOL holes again.
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:06:16 -0800
How many businesses use AOL? Most AOLers are consumers and their kids. They don't have the same service expectations.
-----Original Message----- From: M. David Leonard [mailto:mdl () equinox shaysnet com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:42 PM Peter- This is nothing new - AOL was silently discarding e-mail a year ago. What's worse, when I contacted them I was told that they have an automated system *which does NOT generate reports for the human postmasters* so the staff does not know what domains are being blackholed without grepping through the logs on scores of SMTP servers. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could run a business like that but, hey, they seem to have a lot of customers who either don't care if e-mail gets through or don't know how much AOL loses for them. David Leonard ShaysNet On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:36:02PM -0500, ken harris. wrote:If the MSNBC article is anywhere near correct (yeah, abig assumption) thenwhat AOL was doing was black-holing any "high-volume"source. While thatis a noble goal, the fact that any mailing list wouldfall into thatcategory is pretty lame.http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html#listsThis basically means AOL is violating the very spirit of SMTP - you say '250 message accepted', and you deliver it to all recipients you specified acceptance for, or produce bounces. Greetz, Peter.
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- AOL holes again. Alan Clegg (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Eric A. Hall (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Derek J. Balling (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Alan Clegg (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. ken harris. (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Peter van Dijk (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. M. David Leonard (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Steve Sobol (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Eric A. Hall (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Shawn McMahon (Mar 20)
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- RE: AOL holes again. Richard Welty (Mar 20)
- RE: AOL holes again. Roeland Meyer (Mar 20)
- RE: AOL holes again. M. David Leonard (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Shawn McMahon (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Shawn McMahon (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Dan Hollis (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Shawn McMahon (Mar 20)
- RE: AOL holes again. M. David Leonard (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. Alan Clegg (Mar 20)
- Re: AOL holes again. James M. Shuler III (Mar 20)
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