Re: Bounced email.

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
20030610140459.13592.00001019@mb-m25.aol.com">news:20030610140459.13592.00001019@mb-m25.aol.com...
> Bill Garber wrote:
>
> "someone?" wrote:
>
> >> AOL isnt the only ones doing that.  As people crack down tighter and
> >> tighter on the SPAM issue, a lot of them unwittingly also close off
> >> legitimate sources.  (I know we do!)  We dont block class C's, we
> >> block the entire class B.  This cuts down the Spam from hundreds a day
> >> to a bare trickle of one or two each day.
> >>
> >> However, it seems that some bigger companies including AOL and Apple
> >> have had this problem of blocking legitimate people on a large scale
> >> (we were the victum of the Apple blockage).  But they do fix it.  In
> >> our case it took waiting a weekend, calling Apple and being on the
> >> phone for 2 hours but they did fix it.  If you have the paitience to
> >> deal with the companies, then I say, call them and complain directly.
> >> If you dont, they dont know oyu have the problem.
> >
> >That makes a lot of sense. I mean a very large closed web site
> >such as AOL must have serious problems in that area. I know
> >that when I did some testing and security work for them in the
> >early days it was tough keeping out some of the major hackers.
> >I thought about calling them but I'm afraid that they may be blocking
> >some on an individual basis too. I mean they gave me 3 extra free
> >periods and when it came down to I had to start paying I cancelled,
> >and they may simply be blocking people on that basis. I would
> >hate to think that in the USA that could happen, but I've seen more
> >strange things than that on the internet. Anyway, I will call if it
> >goes on for too long.
>
> They would have no ability to block you, specifically, because
> they have no way to know your email address.
>
> When major nodes block traffic from major regions of the IP address
> space, it is done only sporadically, in response to a transient load,
> not over a prolonged period of time (although there may be some
> punitive exceptions for specific spam-abetting domains).  This
> means that most mail servers will have the opportunity to retry
> later and get their messages through, while in the meantime
> major spam barrages can be found in cooperative servers' retry
> queues and cancelled.


Bill if you the IP address of the server you send mail through the
webaddress below has tools to see why they're blocking a particular address.

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/

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