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Re: AOL holes again.

  • From: Peter van Dijk
  • Date: Tue Mar 20 15:44:04 2001 
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:36:02PM -0500, ken harris. wrote:
> >If the MSNBC article is anywhere near correct (yeah, a big assumption) then
> >what AOL was doing was black-holing any "high-volume" source.  While that
> >is a noble goal, the fact that any mailing list would fall into that
> >category is pretty lame.
> 
> http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html#lists

This basically means AOL is violating the very spirit of SMTP - you
say '250 message accepted', and you deliver it to all recipients you
specified acceptance for, or produce bounces.

Greetz, Peter.