RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

Ironically, this is just more evidence of the value of Goodmail. False
positives are inevitable in a mail system the size and complexity of AOL's.
Goodmail allows demonstrably reliable organizations to bypass the filtering
operations which cause them. 

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:48 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

America Online on Thursday apparently began blocking subscribers from
sending or receiving e-mail containing the Web address of a petition against
the company's upcoming certified-mail program.

The Internet service provider, which has roughly 20 million subscribers in
the United States, began bouncing e-mail communications with the URL
"Dearaol.com" sometime early Thursday, according to nonprofit MoveOn.org.

A e-mail sent by CNET News.com to an AOL.com address and containing the URL
"www.dearaol.com" bounced back on Thursday afternoon with a system
administrator note that read: "The e-mail system was unable to deliver the
message, but did not report a specific reason."

Dearaol.com is a coalition of companies and individuals against AOL's
adoption of GoodMail's CertifiedEmail, an antispam program that requires
marketers to pay to ensure delivery of their e-mail messages and circumvent
spam filters. The Web site contains an open letter and a petition that calls
on people to protest what it calls an "e-mail tax" that would inhibit the
Internet's inherent free flow of information and create a two-tiered system.

[snip]

More:
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6061089.html

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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