Re: AOL Mail updates DMARC policy to 'reject'

[Steven Saner <ssaner () hubris net>]

On 04/25/2014 10:59 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org> wrote:
> > On 4/25/2014 8:00 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > > On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Grant Ridder<shortdudey123 () gmail com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thought i would throw this out there.
> >
> > > Curious I unleashed grep on a couple of mailing lists I operate.
> >
> > > I turned up one AOL address.
> >
> > > I'm not saying my data is representative of the Internet, but I
> > > remember a time when they were 50% of the addresses on my mailing
> > > lists.
> >
> > I doubt the largest list I manage is representative of anything beyond
> > an insane asylum, but out of 900-950, there are SIX of those laying
> > around. Those are all addresses receiving email (I looked at the logs,
> > just to verify). You just never know.
>
> Keep in mind that mailing list membership is heavily dependent on
> demographics of their common interest.  Many mailing lists that folks
> on this list run themselves are likely to be technical in nature, and
> therefore less likely to have @aol.com address.
>
> On the other hand, I belong to a club for people who collect license
> plates.  They tend to be older.  11% (320 of them) are active AOL
> users.
>
> Royce


We run several mailing lists for customers. We frequently get feedback
reports from AOL saying that the AOL user has flagged the message as
spam. So, we remove said user from the list. They then complain that
they have been removed and swear that they didn't do it. Anyone have a
handle on what this is about?

Steve

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