Peter- This is nothing new - AOL was silently discarding e-mail a year ago. What's worse, when I contacted them I was told that they have an automated system *which does NOT generate reports for the human postmasters* so the staff does not know what domains are being blackholed without grepping through the logs on scores of SMTP servers. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could run a business like that but, hey, they seem to have a lot of customers who either don't care if e-mail gets through or don't know how much AOL loses for them. David Leonard ShaysNet On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
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.