AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Sun Mar 30 14:45:03 EST 2003


On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:22, Rob Lembree wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:26, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 12:38, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > > Quoting Ben Boulanger's email of Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:23:55 -0500 (EST
> > > > If AOL says 'no
> > > > direct mail from this IP Space' because there's a known issue with it, I
> > > > think they're doing the right thing.  To ignore the problem only makes it
> > > > worse.
> > This is probably true. Most likely, there are underlying motives that
> > are far less altruistic. However, their TOS *DOES* state that no servers
> > are allowed. ...
> I don't think that they meant servers in terms of outgoing SMTP
> though.  If you run SMTP so that you can send out mail, as far
> as they should be concerned, it's not a server (it doesn't provide
> services to anyone outside the network), any more than sharing
> a printer between machines on a home network does.  They shouldn't
> consider it a server unless it's servicing requests from the outside.

Good point - not that Joe Beer even understands what a server is, let
alone Comcast management. But they still want you to use their SMTP
servers to send outgoing mail. (Acutally, you have to in order to get
your "Reply-to" header right).

Now, if AOL will permit inbound mail from those main servers (and if
Comcast will monitor mail to prevent outgoing spam), then "the world
would be a better place". Not perfect, but better than what we have now.
Sigh.
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