Re: AOL mail server problems?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

jlewis@lewis.org writes on 10/12/2003 11:46 PM:

> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > I've noticed some weird things going on with AOL's smtp servers today -
> > 2003-10-12 12:37:48 1A8k8X-0002OC-0c Remote host mailin-04.mx.aol.com
> > [64.12.138.89] closed connection in response to initial connection
> They're probably blocking you.  Have you gotten many scomp complaints 
> recently?...perhaps a big backlog of them that you/your abuse people 
Someone in another thread did say that you were on a DSL line.  AOL has 
a published policy of blocking mail from residential broadband IPs.

That, combined with the fact that it is quite often rather tough to tell 
where an ISP's dynamic / residential pool ends and where its static IP 
DSL pool begins, might well make AOL cast their net a bit wider than 
they intend.

Call the number they give at http://postmaster.info.aol.com and ask them

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