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Subject: Re: Open Letter Regarding Spam Blocking
From: Vince Sabio <vince @ humournet . com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:52:43 -0500
To: bbrown @ dkmc . org (Bob Brown), postmaster @ aol . com, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9801310142.1.UUL1.3#25605@dkmc.org>

** Sometime around 1:42 -0500 1/31/98, Bob Brown sent everyone:

>OK, AOL... here's what I want you to do about this:  Please fix your
>mailer system so that your customers can't send mail *to* a domain
>they've blocked.  Give them a reasonable error message, one that
>explains how to remove a block, and let them decide whether to keep
>the block, but don't let them send me any more plaintive messages I
>can't do anything about!

Yup, people have called for this before. It makes a *lot* of sense --
which is probably EXACTLY the reason that AOL doesn't implement it.

   <mode=classic_movie selection=Airplane>

       "No ... That's just what they'd be EXPECTING us to do."

   </mode>


- Vince Sabio
  vince@humournet.com

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