On Tue, 7 May 2002, Chris Adams wrote:
We recently received an email from AOL with the Subject "AOL email concerns for hiwaay.net". It had some vague statistics:
Total percentage of messages bounced: 0 Total percentage of bounces accepted: 45% Total number of AOL member complaints: 0
It then went on to say that if we didn't respond in 24 hours, we may be blocked from AOL. I responded asking for more information, but never
Atlantic.net got the same thing. I sent a similar "WTF are you talking about", though not worded quite like that, message in reply. It took them a week and a half to reply to my reply. Their reply was almost as vague as the original message. What I got from it is they are looking at automating spam reporting and want us to setup or simply provide them with an address they can configure their system to automatically forward complaints to. Why they couldn't just say that in the first message rather than sounding all hostile is beyond me. Maybe they've got a new abuse dept. director who's got a serious drug problem. They also completely ignored the message I included with my reply mentioning their netscape.com webmail spam issue and asking what they could do to stop that abuse. Has anyone else tried capturing copies of mail with: :0c: * ^Received: from .*mx\.aol\.com * ^From:.*netscape\.net * ^Received: from netscape\.com .*webmail\.aol\.com netscapespam to see what you get? I did it for several days and got >90% spam...50 megabytes of it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________