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Re: AOL scomp

  • From: chuck goolsbee
  • Date: Thu Feb 24 13:27:34 2005 


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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