Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html This has to be new policty for them because it never rejected them before... Ugh. -Mike
On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Mike Lyon wrote:
Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html
This has to be new policty for them because it never rejected them before...
That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to look like Atriks, doofus."). Do you have some data suggesting that this is actually happening? Cheers, Steve
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Steve Atkins wrote: > That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a > virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of > the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to > look like Atriks, doofus."). > Do you have some data suggesting that this is actually happening? It is indeed happening, and appears to have started last night. And it's not happening with very great accuracy. A valid mailto URL in a signature file triggered it, for instance. -Bill
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: > It is indeed happening, and appears to have started last night. Dang, I really need to train myself to read _all_ of my email before replying to _any_ of it. -Bill
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:35:55 PDT, Mike Lyon said:
Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html
Postings on spam-l indicate that AOL had some broken filters that improperly identified URLS - the intent was to catch URLs of the form http://2993432234133/some/path/here, but it was also catching some/123423433/here as well. Whoops. AOL has backed the filter out.
Anybody more familiar with setup at AOL - is this true? If so you're going to do disservice to the community as in practice this will cause lots of places to go to per-ip virtual hosting and more ip usage from hosting companies like it was 5-7 years ago when browsers did not yet support HTTP/1.1 On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Mike Lyon wrote:
Is anyone else noticing new AOL lameness that when you send an e-mail to an AOL user and if the e-mail has a URL in it but the reverse lookup of that url doesn't come back to that domain name that AOL's postmaster rejects it and gives you this URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html
This has to be new policty for them because it never rejected them before...
Ugh.
-Mike
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