Re: E-mail from MSN to AOL

From: N. Miller (duh_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:00:02 -0700

In article <f96a01c43e3b$0ca578a0$a501280a@phx.gbl>, klowen60@hotmail.com
says...

> I receive e-mail from AOL friends but I am suddenly
> unable to rturn their e-mail or send new e-mail to any
> AOL friends. How do I cure this problem. Thanks, Keith

You probably can't. AOL administrators have taken severely Draconian steps
to try and stem the deluge of spam to aol.com accounts. This has caused
numerous problems with false positives; email which is incorrectly
identified as spam. If you are getting bounces from your provider's server,
then you might be able to get your provider to call AOL. I did that, once,
when AOL was blocking email from prodigy.net MTAs.

In addition, AOL has, apparently, given it's users some means of setting up
a 'white list', and if the email address you are using is not in the white
list, it won't be delivered to the user's Inbox. I don't know what happens
to such email because I am not an actual AOL user, and don't know the
details of the white listing. 

-- 
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
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