Re: Banned URL

From: Matt Silberstein (RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:49:13 GMT

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:06:35 +0200, in alt.computer.security , Jim
Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way> in
<fbu0m1hkc0m7q9ungbp64a5jjjone1tp6o@4ax.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:31:48 GMT, Matt Silberstein
><RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>You think that systems blocking email based on the content is not a
>>security issue? I have to disagree. Their blocking my email affects
>>the availability of the data, one of the legs of IT security.
>
>Thats what all spammers say - as your signature was as long as the
>message and you have your website URL there three times

I don't have my website in my sig. And I am sorry if I am giving too
many lines to try to prevent genocide. I guess you have more important
things on your mind.

> it looks
>more like a cheap attempt to put your political message in peoples
>face rather than anything serious.

Oh wow, I would try to get people to know about genocide, how immoral
of me.

>You fail to explain how a URL is allegedly 'banned' by AOL

I am sorry if I was not clear. I sent an email to a friend with the
sig you see. They blocked it and told me it was due to a URL. By
modifying the sig I figured out which URL was the problem.

>If they are blocking your email, its could be because they have
>identified you as a spammer, which is likely, or because they
>have implemented Sender id

Because, after all, AOL would block people who have sigs with more
than four lines. Sheesh. I guess they are blocking me. And it is just
a coincidence that they only block messages with that URL.

>now read
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/senderid/default.mspx
>
>I sometimes have had my email to AOL users blocked because of their
>policies of blocking suspicious senders, like spammers.
>
>However its something you should take up with them, and your service
>provider.
>
>presumably their users are happy with the way their email is sanitised

What a notion. Is this your normal view, that what companies do we
presume is liked?

>and in taking bigtime spammers to court they are doing everyine a
>service. Generally they also seem to respond promptly to my
>complaints, although it might not be my choice of an ISP 

-- 
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