On 4/29/01 10:54 AM, Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
>On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
>>At that point, your mail starts vanishing (no bounces, no error,
>>just no delivery).
>
>At that point, I lose all sympathy with them. Bounce the message,
>fine. 550, no problem. Their network, their anti-spam policy. But
>silent dropping is just _wrong_.
John's right. Because of how AOL's mail system works, messages don't fail
during the SMTP transaction. A 550 error is sent back to the envelope
sender in email form. A single forged spam run of several million pieces
could knock an innocent party off of the Internet when AOL floods them in
bounces. Thus, AOL just drops it.
All of this is explained in my FAQ.
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