Well I noticed a boat load of bounced emails to my AOL users today. So from my gmail account I sent them all gmail invites explained the situation and put a kill filter for any future attempts form AOL users to sign up.
Furthermore I posted on the front page of my site exactly what game AOL is playing, and encouraging folks who are using AOL to dump them and find a better ISP that doesn't just reject emails out of hand like that. I have 1k users about 5% are AOL users, so hopefully I'm doing a little damage to AOL's bottom line. ;) On 2/3/06, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 11:21 -0700, Matthew Walker wrote: > > > > Except that it already works that way. This pay service won't block delivery > > of non-paying items. They're just much more likely to end up in the junk > > folder. Problem is, NO ONE looks in that folder. If your company's email > > ends > > up there, it might as well have never arrived. > > Hmm. So does this open up the possibility of marketing firms paying to > send advertising to your box (similar to snail mail junk mail)? In > other words, they pay a small fee (which they pass on to the original > firms who hired them) and then they are guaranteed that their messages > will hit the inboxes of the recipients. Of course that currently would > violate anti-spam laws. However marketing companies could argue that > since they are paying for the bandwidth now (as opposed to free-loading > before) that ISPs and providers cannot legally automatically filter e- > mail on the grounds of cost of resources. I highly doubt we're headed > for this scenario anytime soon, but it would be an interesting > situation. > > Michael > > > > > > After recently building a new mailserver, I've decided that until spammers > > invest more in real mail server hardware, the number 1 best solution to spam > > is greylisting. It has stopped 95%+ of all the email that has tried to reach > > the new server, and I haven't had a single report of a legitimate message > > getting bounced. > > > > Combined with sensible RBL usage, a good virus scanner, and spamassassin set > > with conservative limits (everything scored under 15 is delivered), I've > > seen > > a HUGE reduction in spam reaching my users. > > > > Yes, some still gets through, but most of that is semi-legitimate. > > Greylisting > > stops all the virii that do bulk spamming, it stops the boilerplate spam > > software that doesn't queue delivery. > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
