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Re: AOL scomp


From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () cadence com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:50:33 -0800 (PST)



Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:25:56 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>


On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:28:31 -0500, Vinny Abello <vinny () tellurian com> wrote:
I can attest that we do not see the same here as you are seeing (1 in 100).
I'd agree more with the 1/3 being stupid AOL users reporting regular
messages that were either forwarded from their own account that we host to

Well - there's a way out, sort of.

1. Route .forwarded email out a separate IP (besides cutting down on
accepting and forwarding spam)

or

2. Find some way - like an X-Forwarded-For header, that AOL can tag on.

There aready ARE such headers...  "Resent-From:",  "Resent-To:", ...


--srs

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