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List:       majordomo-workers
Subject:    Re: Open letter to AOL
From:       SRE <eckert () climber ! org>
Date:       1999-01-27 17:52:41
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At 10:29 AM 1/27/99 +0100, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>In the meantime I have heard from other list-managers who say that in
>order to reduce the amount of UBE, AOL has a policy of relegating to
>/dev/null _without_warning_ all messages which satisfy certain criteria.
>I find this policy completely unacceptable, and a clear violation of
>section 5.3.3 in RFC1123.


I have confirmation from an AOL user that they did filter in the past.
Don't know if they are doing it now:

>	About a year ago AOL did stop newsgroup posts (at least for our majordomo
>list) with their SPAM filter but when everybody screamed the problem went
>away. Detection was by the owner (not me) who recieved bounces from all the
>AOL accounts.
>	It is possible that the filter has been changed since in my personal
>experience, in all cases, I was attempting to post the same message to 
[snip]
>	I will ask AOL if the filter has been changed.

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