Re: AOL Terms -- Revealed

[murr rhame <murr @ vnet . net>]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Adam Bailey wrote:

> ... A single forged spam run of several million pieces could
> knock an innocent party off of the Internet when AOL floods
> them in bounces. Thus, AOL just drops it.

If someone is running an open relay that's being hijacked by
spammers, they aren't exactly what I would call innocent.  
Perhaps they're not malicious but at the very least they are
negligent.  I doubt AOL is dropping bounces out of kindness.


- murr -