I just called AOL a strange beast out of habit (I despise AOL). Anyway, I
justed to make a point and I usually use mindspring.com as an example of an
ISP that gives real-time validation and AOL as an example of one that does
not.
Regards,
Howie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [iMS] aol hell
>
> >AOL is a strange beast. Basically, you can send any address that you
want
> >to AOL and it will be accepted ([EMAIL PROTECTED], for example).
>
> Logistically, it's just impossible for each of their mail gateways
> around the world to query for the envelope recipient in a base of 20
> million accounts.
>
> The gateways do validate in real-time the envelope sender's domain in DNS.
>
> afaik, AOL doesn't subscribe to MAPS or other blacklists.
>
> Len
>
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