Re: Banned URL

From: Matt Silberstein (RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:59:32 GMT

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:16:13 +0200, in alt.computer.security , Jim
Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way> in
<6dn2m1hmm9tgldjtcraail01u09ms9oofd@4ax.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:37:37 GMT, Matt Silberstein
><RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>Clearly you are not interested in the reasons why AOL and others
>legitimately block spam emails

My interest, to the extent this was blocked as spam, was on why this
was marked as spam. It was solicited email, so it can't be that. I can
still send, so I am not blocked. So the question was why it was
blocked. You seem to think that AOL counts how many lines and/or URLs
I have in my sig. I changed the sig in various ways and found that it
was a particular URL that they objected to. So I am willing to guess
it was that URL. The question is why.

>read the MS URL I cited, which is just one explanation of how
>mail server operators try and stem the flood of unsolicited emails

How was my sending an email to a friend unsolicited? We had been
exchanging email all day and the first block came when I changed my
sig. And it went away when I removed the link in question.

>If you have a complaint with AOL complain to them.

I understand that you are unable to help with this question. That is
fine. My experience was that ISP and blacklist providers like to keep
this very close to the vest. 

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