It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in
Postini is my friend :-) -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of chuck goolsbee Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:19 PM To: nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: AOL scomp lists. The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account. Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source. And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal correspondence ... which I find weird.
Ahh well -- this is a nice mechanism that AOL provides, IMO.
Agreed, though maybe they should look at SpamAssasin or Postini. Take their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow. --chuck -- ______________________________________________________ There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for; there comes a point where you compensate for so much stupidity that it starts to cause problems for the people who actually think in a normal way. -Bill, digital.forest tech support
Postini is my friend too. But the more we can do to get rid of spam on our own, the less we have to pay Postini each month. What we pay to Postini a year could pay a persons salary! -- "If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers..." - Homer Simpson Drew Weaver wrote:
Postini is my friend :-)
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of chuck goolsbee Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:19 PM To: nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: AOL scomp
It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in
lists.
The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account. Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.
And the remaining third seems to be just plain old normal personal correspondence ... which I find weird.
Ahh well -- this is a nice mechanism that AOL provides, IMO.
Agreed, though maybe they should look at SpamAssasin or Postini. Take their end-users out of the filtering mechanism somehow.
--chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Taber" <tabes@wmis.net> To: <nanog@merit.org> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Re: AOL scomp
Postini is my friend too.
But the more we can do to get rid of spam on our own, the less we have to pay Postini each month.
Postini's admin. interface is always slow (we have been a customer for 3 years) and as of 20 mins. ago quit working altogether. Users cannot log into their message centers. The new contract we just got, with increase, does not sit well at present. James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa jamesh@cybermesa.com noc@cybermesa.com http://www.cybermesa.com/ContactCM (505) 795-7101
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