Re: AOL

[Tim Pierce <twp @ rootsweb . com>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:26:19PM -0500, Nick Simicich wrote:
> At 10:36 AM 11/15/99 -0600, Adam Bailey wrote:
> >On 11/14/99 10:26 PM, Nicole Marie Spring 
> ><spring@legalnurseconsultants.com> wrote...
> >
> >>I am receiving an increasing number of  complaints from my aol.com
> >>subscribers that they are either not receiving email (33%) from my list or
> >>receiving only sporadic email. (66%) 
> >
> >Check your headers. AOL will drop messages that have faulty DNS or other 
> >header errors.
> 
> In light of what was said, this reply makes little sense.  Why would some
> get through and some not get through?

One possibility is if the recipient's mail server is rejecting the
mail based on some headers that were not generated by the mailing
list (which might include Message-ID, From, Date, or others,
depending on the list software).

Another possibility is if mail is being dropped due to some transient
problem with the sender's domain, e.g. poor network connectivity to
their DNS server.

> Why would some su bscribers get some
> of the mail and others get none of it?

AOL subscribers have been known to turn on mail filters and then
forget or misunderstand what's being filtered.  That might
be responsible here.

-- 
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer