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AOL Placed on Spam Blacklist

Posted by Zonk on from the it-wasn't-there-before? dept.

Hacker-X writes "According to this item over at Spam Kings, AOL has had a large swath of its IP addresses added to the Mail Abuse Prevention Systems (MAPS) Real-time Blackhole List (RBL). The RBL is used by many corporations and large ISPs to filter spam. MAPS evidently started blocking the AOL mail servers less than 24 hours after filing a complaint with AOL's abuse desk. The block was initiated in response to spam emanating from AOL mail servers."

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  1. Spam emanating? by PrimeWaveZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't that like having flames emanate from my ass after eating at Taco Bell?

    Or is it more like people emanating from a theatre during a screening of "Gigli: Special Edition"?

  2. Re:Overzealous by PingXao · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why should anyone have to take any action whatsoever to unsubscribe from something they never subscribed to in the first place? What's the "popular website" you speak of? I'll wager 1,000 quatloos that there are documented spam complaints against it. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but Spammers Lie and that's a fact.

    OT Aside: I wish /. would provide categories or labels I could apply when marking someone as "Friend" or "Foe". Thinks like "MS Shill", "Spam Friendly" or "Supports Bush" would be very handy.