AOL, spam blocking [was: Re: Which Tungsten C encryption is more secure?]

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 06/18/03 

Date: 17 Jun 2003 23:23:40 GMT

In article <IVnFa.20773$MM4.4554404@news0.telusplanet.net>,
John Joot <johnjoot@hotmail.com> wrote:
:funny u should mention AOL. the other day, i tried to email to an AOL
:address and i got back a return info from their automated sys:

:554-The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a dynamic
:(residential)
:554-IP address. AOL will not accept future e-mail transactions from this IP
: 554-address until your ISP removes this IP address from its list of dynamic
: 554-(residential) IP addresses. For additional information, please visit
: 554-http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
: 554 Goodbye

:i mean, who the hell does AOL think they are? i am on DSL of a local ISP
:whose also the main telephone company in the western regions of Canada.
:spams to aol must be really really bad to be doing this.

spams to AOL *are* really really bad. As I recall, the figure
was a *billion* [US billion -- 1000 million] a -day- recently.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,79045,00.html

:in my 2yrs with my ISP, there hasn't been one instance of spam in my mail
:account with them whatsoever.

AOL is supposed to know that that particular IP address is -you-
through exactly which mechanism? You get automatically assigned a new
IP address periodically [it's once a week here in Manitoba], and the
address you have -now- might yesterday have belonged to someone who
tried to send a few million spams a day to AOL.

AOL is spending tens of millions of dollars on spam prevention per year. 

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   "The human genome is powerless in the face of chocolate."
   -- Dr. Adam Drewnowski

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