Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's

[JC Dill]

On 05:42 AM 10/26/02, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

>I'm coming to agree with you (and am revising my initial stance based on
>what you and others have written). This really is an automated user end
>mail filtering. It shouldn't really be generating bounces.

What's really odd about this is that the AOL filters are infamous for swallowing email without a trace. Often AOL users who use whitelists bid on something on eBay and then can't get email from the seller because the seller isn't on the whitelist (and a well known work-around is to send email thru eBay's "contact a user" interface, because then the email comes thru eBay, which may be whitelisted). The seller doesn't get *any* response when sending email to winners with this type of filter.

So why am I getting bounce messages to the list manager email address? I wonder if AOL has changed how they process "filtered" messages...

jc