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Subject: Re: AOL
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory @ blank . org>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:33:13 -0500
To: James Lick <jlick @ drivel . com>, Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.4.10.9911151637380.22721-100000@tcp.com>; from James Lick on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:40:43PM -0800
References: <3.0.5.32.19991115142619.03490400@127.0.0.1> <Pine.SOL.4.10.9911151637380.22721-100000@tcp.com>

In the immortal words of James Lick (jlick@drivel.com):
> 
> Ironically, in the past AOL was screamed at for doing just what you
> suggest.  When they got a mass spam from a forged address, all the bounces
> end up mailbombing some poor sap who happens to own the domain in
> question.  

Having been on the receiving end of that very attack, allow me to
personally confirm that that was in fact the case, and be the first to
commend AOL for adopting a lower-profile bounce-handling procedure.

-n

------------------------------------------------------------<memory@blank.org>
"You don't qualify as the typical male snakebite victim: you weren't drinking,
you don't have any tattoos, and you have all your teeth."
<http://www.blank.org/memory/>------------------------------------------------


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