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A generalized version goes like this:<br>
(1) No mater how the list to be blocked came into being, AOL is doing the
blocking, right?<br>
(2) Whoever is doing the blocking will not (normally) unblock at the behest
of the customers of another vendor (i.e., the sender(s) of the blocked email
- spam or not).<br>
(3) If AOL is blocking, it will (normally) take requests from AOL customers
to get AOL to stop blocking.<br>
... many variables possible, but that's the gist (I believe).<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jeremyb@univista.com">jeremyb@univista.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Hey folks, have any of you had issues with
blocked/returned AOL.com destined email sent from smtp servers on SWBell
DSL lines?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"> I know this isn't exactly a Linux topic,
but I figured some of you may have been affected by this.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial"> I have two Austin clients that can't send
any email to AOL email addresses... that's a real problem when half the
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<font size="2" face="Arial"> country seems to use AOL.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"> ...anyhow, after doing the usual he-said-she-said
song-and-dance with SWBell, ASI and AOL I discovered that </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">SWBell sent a list of 500 or so "suspicious"
IPs to AOL. Suspicious meaning smtp relaying problems were "known" to exist
on these servers. Well, my clients don't relay mail and haven't been sending
spam. According to AOL, the heart of the matter is that SWBell actually has
the smtp relaying problems on their own server. ...not the necessarily 500
or so customers they</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Pimped out to AOL.... What? ...Huh? ..when
does this start to make sense? Now I've got clients that can't communicate
with their clients... and a bunch of multinational conglomerates pointing
their slimy Draconian fingers at each other. I hate this part of the job.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial"> Is Anyone else experiencing this crapola?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Jeremy Brooks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Univista</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">office: 512-832-6209</font></p>
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