Re: [IMail Forum] Emails to AOL users

[R. Scott Perry]

>It turns out that they implemented a new method of SPAM
>control, by checking the FREQUENCY that emails are originating from
>any given IP address.  If emails arrive more frequently than 1 per
>10 seconds (approx), then AOL throws away all subsequent email
>originating from that IP.

And of course, it's doing them no good.  They are now getting many millions 
of E-mails a day from just one spammer with a distributed spamming system 
set up, so it is sent from thousands of different open relays.  But it 
probably will take months before they start caring about that.

                                                            -Scott
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