Re: aol rejects mailing lists?

["Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil () semihuman com>]

AOL is seriously cracking down on mailing lists, mainly because it's 
difficult to tell a mailing list from a spam run. This has been discussed 
on SPAM-L; AOL must "whitelist" your mailing list, and there's a long 
agreement that the admin has to sign before they'll do so. However, I have 
no clue who to contact at AOL that handles this; let me work some inside 
contacts and see if I can't find anything out.

-Chris

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote:
> One could assume that to cut down on spam, they are requiring the
> RCPT to match either To or Cc in the body.  It might be a valid
> strategy except that it breaks mailing lists and Bccs.  They might
> be willing to pay that price, so you might be out of luck.
>
> Either that or they broke something.  :)
>
> Aaron
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've noticed on one of the mailing lists that I'm running that AOL has just
> > started bouncing email (like literally a few minutes ago) sent to subscribers
> > of the list.  Email does get delivered properly when sent directly to the
> > subscribers.  If the mail gets delivered thru the list, it's rejected with a
> > 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND which is bogus.
> >
> > Anyone encountered this before?  How do I get them to stop this nonsense?
> > Help?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris

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