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� Tulipmania | Main | Asleep on ORD-SEA �AOL fights spam, sure, but they have these great arbitrary rules in what you send their subscribers. Although I run a very clean double opt-in email list with conservative bounce policies (bounces quickly turn to suspended email attempts based on a variety of simple rules), I just had a bunch of "permanent" delivery errors with my Wi-Fi Networking News list. The crime? Including a link that used an IP address (a Google cached entry, as it turns out) instead of a full domain name for a Web site.
This is a bit heavy handed, although I'm sure it stops a lot of bad phishing attempts.
The extensive list of SMTP-embedded error codes that AOL has developed is impressive.
Posted by Glennf at April 25, 2006 11:18 PM
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AOL provides a TON of info for service providers concerning the mail that comes out of their network. Part of their system is user-fed, which provides hours of entertaining reading for abuse desks (what gets reported as spam by AOL users we get a copy of... it presents a fascinating trip through the mind of the average AOL customer!)
Overall they are the best large ISP to deal with WRT abuse. Yahoo is probably the worst... well no... Comcast is probably the worst.
Feel free to call me if you need more info on this stuff... it is my life! =)
--chuck
Posted by: chuck goolsbee at April 25, 2006 11:40 PM
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