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All - must be a .com thang - I manage over 700 lists as lists.uoregon.edu with a fairly high number of aol.com subscriber addresses (mostly students) and I'm not seeing any bounces - maybe they give .edu a free pass? Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon [email protected] (541) 346-1774 On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > --------------------------- > Christopher A. Woodfield [email protected] > > PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB887618B >
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