On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Greg Folkert wrote:
> http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=96264
>
> Hope that helps... that is just the tip of the iceberg.
I'm personally not bothered, if AOL start rejecting mail from me, the
sender verify will reject mail from them - if that's how they want it,
they can have it like that ...
I don't think I actually deliver mail to or receive from any AOL address
anyway ... though it might effect stuff I relay for.
I presume AOL are drawing up a whitelist of valid ISP SMTP smarthosts -
certainly the reports I have seen involves AOL blocking *everything*
(leased lines, DSL, dialups - you name it) except the smarthost.
I think we should just leave AOL to play their games.
> They are also blocking from any domain like "petersburg.mi.us"
> "city.cockney.uk"
>
> grassworks.com...
Perfectly valid to block them, there is no way to verify the sender -
there is no way to bounce to the sender - so rejecting is valid.
I don't under the grassworks.com reference, but I presume the first two
are in some altroot somewhere - I use an altroot myself, and can see the
dilemma, but I don't blame anyone for rejecting something they can't
verify.
