Looks like someone's E-mail harvester isn't working quite right. Basically someone harvested a bunch of Usenet message IDs, thinking that they were E-mail addresses. Because stuff to the right of @ is my machine name, mail addressed this way will be attempted a delivery here. So, AOL's outgoing mail servers are now busy spitting garbage at me. If I was running a standard unpatched Qmail, I'd be wasting a whole crapload of bandwidth accepting mail to nonexistent users, generating a bounce for it, and shoving it back at AOL. Instead, since I've patched it to refuse E-mail to nonexistent local addresses, I'm just rejecting the RCPT TO: with significant savings in bandwidth and time. I hardly need to do anything about it, except watch the mail logs scroll, with some detached amusement.
