On 2/13/15 14:11, Geoff Mulligan wrote:
> Thank you to everyone that provided ideas on how I should deal with aol,
> yahoo and such with my listserv.
> 
> I've modified my software to do some header munging and I'll see how
> that works.
> 
> I'm still confused though on how I'm supposed to deal with SCOMP
> messages from AOL.
> 
> Since I'm on and never have been more will ever be an AOL user I don't
> know how these SCOMP messages are generated.

The SCOMP messages are part of your feedback loop from AOL. This is not
directly related to the DMARC brokenness that they and Y! introduced a
few months ago.

Whenever an AOL user clicks the "Report as spam" button on email, a copy
of the email is sent to the address that you configured for your
feedback loop, addressed from SCOMP@AOL.

The purpose of this is to give you an early warning of any spammers
inhabiting your IP space, so that you can take action.

However....

Either the AOL user interface is confusing and the "Delete" and "Report
as spam" buttons are easily confused, or the reading comprehension and
intelligence of AOL users as a group is miniscule, or both.

We see LOTS of reported spam from AOL users that is clearly
transactional and often rather personal in nature, clearly not spam.

> Is it automated or are my subscribers "indicating" that messages coming
> from my mail list are SPAM.

It is triggered by the recipient flagging that particular message as spam.

I would suspect that these reports are also likely tied to an internal
AOL algorithm that will filter or reject email should some threshold be
exceeded likely based on source IP, content, etc. So far to the best of
my knowledge we haven't run into this despite numerous SCOMP reports
(close to 100% user error based on reading the reports).

--
Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [email protected]
Impulse Internet Service  -  http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV

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