This is exactly why I think we should have a some
sort of global internet council for setting standards, rather than all of us
little guys having to react, after the fact, whenever a large player makes a
change. The global council could maintain a distribution list to help mail
admins to keep up with proposed changes and implementation schedules. This
is very similar to any other industry that must keep up with compliance
standards.
In some ways this also seems like an unfair
competition tactic as it makes the little guys look bad when our
customers can't send mail to AOL...it encourages customers to move to the large
players to avoid not having mail delivered to their users.
Darin. ----- Original Message -----
From: Todd Holt
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] AOL and Reverse DNS I know this will stir a
few people the wrong way, but… If so many people are
upset that MS is being monopolistic by using their EULA to prevent software from
operating, then why don’t those same people get upset at AOL for the
internet-nazi-police tactics used to prevent mail from
being delivered? MS just says that you
can’t use certain apps on their OS.
AOL says that you can’t deliver mail through mail servers (that control
more email than any other on the planet) because they deemed it “bad” through
inaccurate, generalized and dare I say “monopolistic”
policies. The lack of complaints
about AOL just shows that the MS bashers are not upset about the MS policies (or
monopoly), they just want to complain about the big
company on the block. I think if
the majority owner of AOL was the richest person on the planet, they would bash
AOL. How short
sided!!! Further, all of the
justice dept. proceedings are based on complaints by the competition, not the
users. On the other hand, AOL has
thousands of consumer complaints, but very few (if any) complaints by
competitors. It’s obvious that the
justice dept. just wants to appease whiny losers like Jim Barksdale and Scott
McNealy. And the MS bashers just
fall in line. Lemmings.
-----Original
Message----- Hi, I just noticed that AOL has stepped
up their policies another notch. They used to say that "AOL
**MAY**" not accept email from servers without Reverse DNS.
In the last two weeks, that
changed:
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