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Re: AOL scomp


From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist () forest net>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:18:35 -0800


It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists.

The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account. Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.

And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal correspondence ... which I find weird.

Ahh well -- this is a nice mechanism that AOL provides, IMO.

Agreed, though maybe they should look at SpamAssasin or Postini. Take their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow.

--chuck


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