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RE: AOL mail netblocks
- From: Martin Hannigan
- Date: Tue Jul 02 11:06:18 2002
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
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