Re: AOL Mail updates DMARC policy to 'reject'

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 4/25/14, 9:04 AM, Steven Saner wrote:
> 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?

It's a user interface problem. marked messages disappear. aol user
employees this in lieu of mailbox filtering.  it could have been fixed a
decade ago.

> Steve

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