On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I was hoping someone was going to say that "AOL already does this themselves". In the 'old' days, there was a list of what to allow under .ipt.aol.com. It's pretty easy for them to do it, and I'm guessing that they do actually filter this outbound, or their managed modem providers may, I'm just looking for a confirmation.
I don't think they do filter outbound SMTP. I've gotten complaints from AOL dial-up users that AOL does not filter outbound SMTP, and that they don't provide outgoig SMTP servers (hard to believe), so we should not block AOL dial-up addresses, because these people have to run their own SMTP servers. My thought/feeling on this is "BS and apathy". The vast vast majority of AOL dial-ups have no business doing direct-to-MX email. The handful that think they do can find workarounds or a more appropriate provider.
Ok then, is there a place where I can bath myself in AOL dialup identified netblocks? I'm not trying to start a spam discussion here on the Operations list <g> just get some operational information. -M