On 1/29/04 1:40 AM, "John Arrowsmith" <john(a)arrowsmith.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
AOL sees all the new spam incoming from such an ISP (wholly
innocent,
with innocent users) and seems to put a mass-block on everything coming
in from that ISP.
The fact that the ISP may itself be vigorously anti-spam, and that its
users may genuinely not be sending any spam at all, and that all the
spam is actually coming from somewhere else entirely, seems irrelevant
to AOL. They seem to block the apparent source, not the actual source :(
That's exactly the problem, and it shows how bogus AOL's approach is. Any
competent ISP can tell the real origin of a spam message by looking at the
headers. ^There's no excuse for AOL blocking the forged "apparent" source
instead of the real source.
I do have information from another Rootsweb list I'm on that Rootsweb is
working with AOL to get unblocked, but it hasn't happened yet, so they're
advising AOL users to read the archives to make sure they aren't missing any
mail, and to complain to AOL about this unreasonable blockage.
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