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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: AOL mail netblocks
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > > I was hoping someone was going to say that "AOL already does this > > themselves". In the 'old' days, there was a list of what to allow > > under .ipt.aol.com. It's pretty easy for them to do it, and I'm > > guessing that they do actually filter this outbound, or their > > managed modem providers may, I'm just looking for a confirmation. > > I don't think they do filter outbound SMTP. I've gotten complaints from > AOL dial-up users that AOL does not filter outbound SMTP, and that they > don't provide outgoig SMTP servers (hard to believe), so we should not > block AOL dial-up addresses, because these people have to run their own > SMTP servers. My thought/feeling on this is "BS and apathy". The vast > vast majority of AOL dial-ups have no business doing direct-to-MX email. > The handful that think they do can find workarounds or a more appropriate > provider. Ok then, is there a place where I can bath myself in AOL dialup identified netblocks? I'm not trying to start a spam discussion here on the Operations list <g> just get some operational information. -M
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