Re: AOL email concerns for nodak.edu (fwd)

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

We have considered contacting all our users forwarding to their AOL accounts and
offering them a choice either to stop reporting spam or stop using AOL for
forwarded email...

It's remarkable what messages get looped back to me as spam from AOL users;
letters from Mom, highly personal notes and the like. In fact, I worry about the
breach of privacy that AOL has instituted with this feedback mechanism,
particularly as we start to monitor FERPA compliance, et al.

--Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College
 www.ouuf.org, www.calfrye.com
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  "I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make
it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).


Mark T. Nardone wrote:
> One of the reasons we found ourselves on the list was users who forward out
> their University email to AOL.
> It would cause our domain to be tagged as the spammer rather than the
> originating source.
> The several instances AOL complained about were not open relays at all.
>
> Mark
>
>
> Mark T. Nardone
> IT Security Analyst
> Northeastern University

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