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Re: AOL Lameness

  • From: Steve Atkins
  • Date: Mon Oct 02 13:56:13 2006 
On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Mike Lyon wrote:

Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail
to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse
lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's
postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL:
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html

This has to be new policty for them because it never rejected them before...
That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a
virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of
the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to
look like Atriks, doofus.").

Do you have some data suggesting that this is actually happening?

Cheers,
  Steve