Greetings
I have written to you recently about a number of messages of perfectly
legitimate mailing list traffic which were accepted for delivery by AOL's
mailservers, but which were never delivered (and there were no non-delivery
notifications either). Since this affects lists which are support groups
and the lifeline for many people, quite a few of them have written to us in
concern about the missing messages.
In the meantime I have heard from other list-managers who say that in
order to reduce the amount of UBE, AOL has a policy of relegating to
/dev/null _without_warning_ all messages which satisfy certain criteria.
I find this policy completely unacceptable, and a clear violation of
section 5.3.3 in RFC1123.
I'm not against spam filtering, but I would propose that there must be a
way in which legitimate mailing list servers can be authenticated and
then be allowed to bypass your spam filters.
What is your position concerning this?
Yours sincerely,
Norbert Bollow
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Norbert Bollow, Zuerich, Switzerland Backup E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
