I happen to stumble across the AOL antispam policies several times
all large Israeli (might be international as well) ISPs suffer from those.
AOL have a self-developed heuristic anti-spam mechanism.
This program finds out who is the owner of the IP block that the spam message is sent from
and sends a complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for every spam message recieved.
If the owner of the IP block passed a certain level of spam - AOL just block all IP addresses owned by that entity.
AOL done that because ISPs where saying "We don't care if one of our clients spams AOL users".
Now all customers suffer from this if their ISP got blocked by AOL.
regards Boris.
Arie Folger wrote:
Hi,
We discussed this matter in the past, that AOL decided no longer to accept mail from servers that relay mail freely or have open proxies. The funny thing is that I am on a private network, and should therefore not be visible to the outside world, definitely not as a mail server. So, am I right to conclude that this complaint of AOL's is directed towards my ISP? Or is it towards the ADSL router of ours?
Also, I mailed them a complaint letter why they shouldn't maintain such a policy, but they didn't even bother to reply.
Arie Folger
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