AOL is seriously cracking down on mailing lists, mainly because it's difficult to tell a mailing list from a spam run. This has been discussed on SPAM-L; AOL must "whitelist" your mailing list, and there's a long agreement that the admin has to sign before they'll do so. However, I have no clue who to contact at AOL that handles this; let me work some inside contacts and see if I can't find anything out. -Chris On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote:
One could assume that to cut down on spam, they are requiring the RCPT to match either To or Cc in the body. It might be a valid strategy except that it breaks mailing lists and Bccs. They might be willing to pay that price, so you might be out of luck.
Either that or they broke something. :)
Aaron
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
Hey guys,
I've noticed on one of the mailing lists that I'm running that AOL has just started bouncing email (like literally a few minutes ago) sent to subscribers of the list. Email does get delivered properly when sent directly to the subscribers. If the mail gets delivered thru the list, it's rejected with a 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND which is bogus.
Anyone encountered this before? How do I get them to stop this nonsense? Help?
Cheers, Chris
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