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RE: Fun new policy at AOL
From: "Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:29:42 -0700
Susan,
It just ticks me off because I know there are a lot of others who will be in this boat.
Indeed, there are. I have numerous small customers that have either a single static IP or a /29 block from {Pacific Bell | your ISP} and that occasionally are blocked because either the block is marked as residential or the reverse lookup contains the string "dsl". However, trying to be pragmatic, this is a situation that will eventually solve by itself: Since having {Pacific Bell | your ISP} do anything about it is not an option, when these customers are trying to email to {AOL | some ISP} and are blocked, they will try first to have if {AOL | some ISP} to whitelist the address; if it can't be done they will say "get an ISP that does not suck". There are two sides on this coin; one is that indeed this stinks, but the other one is that AOL receives several billion spams a day, so I can understand that they're trying to control the problem with the tools they have. Curious, have you tried to call AOL to get the IP of the customer whitelisted? Michel.
Current thread:
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL, (continued)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Jay Stewart (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Paul Vixie (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL John Palmer (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Simon Waters (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Johnny Eriksson (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Susan Zeigler (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Dr. Jeffrey Race (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Dr. Jeffrey Race (Aug 28)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Michel Py (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Ray Wong (Aug 28)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Gary E. Miller (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Jack Bates (Aug 29)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Michel Py (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Jack Bates (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL JC Dill (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Jack Bates (Aug 29)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Michel Py (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Miquel van Smoorenburg (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Simon Lockhart (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Simon Lockhart (Aug 29)