>From shakuhachi-request@communication.ucsd.edu Sat Jan 3 08:19:29 2004
>
>Much more likely that those universities and other ISPs blocking
>Bruno's mail are protecting themselves from Bruno's ISP being on
>a "known spammer" list, often because of open relay. Bruno should
>complain to his ISP and if his ISP is unresponsive, take his business
>elsewhere.
Last week AOL notified the University of California that it was going
to stop acceptin *ALL* email sent from UC managed mailing lists to AOL
addresses unless UC began filtering out all mail destined for
expired or nonexistent AOL addresses (it's a standard trick in the
computer business of getting your customers to do your work for
you).
AOL has also been known to reject email from machines and domains
that it suspects of supporting spammers. The operative word here is
"suspects" - one of my servers was blocked for that reason and we do
not support spammers (except perhaps if given an opportunity to support
hanging them by the thumbs). The machine was sending regular log
file entries to one user at AOL. Unfortunately, you cannot
communicate with AOL via email so my customer had to stop getting
her log files that way.
A lot of companies, at a loss for a practical way to reduce unwanted
traffic on their networks, are beginning to refuse email from
suspect sources, often on what appears to be a whim.
I suspect that Bruno's ISP is the victim of such stupidity. I wish
I had a solution for him and the rest of you who will be victimized
by similar idiot maneuvers. Sadly, I do not.
bj
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