AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Ben Boulanger]

On 29 Mar 2003, Scott Garman wrote:
> I clearly understand the spam problem, but this does not seem to be a
> reasonable solution to it. I could even see allowing individual AOL
> users the ability to set brain-dead, highly restrictive anti-spam rules
> like this, but not making a blanket decision for all of its users.

This is an -incredibly- reasonable solution!  I'm psyched that AOL has 
finally made a good decision about it.  I run an smtp server at my place 
too, but it's trivial to hand the mail off to another server that'll 
accept it.  

This is done for dial-up pools all the time, hell - there's even a list 
from maps including the dial pools - the DUL.  Despite your problems now, 
this is a great thing and really makes me think better of AOL.  There's a 
very large amount of open relays on this network... yeah, it should be 
dealt with by the abuse dept., but there simply isn't enough bodies to 
deal with the sheer volume of problems and things like child pornography 
and actual hacking takes precendence (as it should).  If AOL finally got 
fed up and said 'enough is enough', I congratulate them for helping to 
make spam less of an issue.

Ben


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