20 Mar
2001
20 Mar
'01
3:40 p.m.
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.