I suspect no one has an issue with what AOL is doing is because we are so close to the situation (i.e. we are all trying to block spam).
Darrell
Todd Holt writes:
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.
Todd Holt Xidix Technologies, Inc Las Vegas, NV USA www.xidix.com 702.319.4349 -----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:26 PM
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Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] AOL and Reverse DNS
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:
http://postmaster.aol.com/guidelines/standards.html
* AOL's servers will not accept connections from unsecured
systems. These include open relays, open proxies, open routers, or any
other system that has been determined to be available for unauthorized
use. * AOL's mail servers will not accept connections from systems that
use dynamically assigned or residential IP addresses. * AOL will not deliver e-mail that contains a hex-encoded
Universal Resource Locator (URL). (Ex: http://%6d%6e%3f/) * AOL's mail servers will reject connections from any IP address
that does not have reverse DNS (a PTR record). Best Regards
Andy Schmidt
H&M Systems Software, Inc.
600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846
Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business)
Fax: +1 201 934-9206
http://www.HM-Software.com/
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