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Subject: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's blacklist/blocklist entry
From: JC Dill <inet-list @ vo . cnchost . com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:17:48 -0700
To: "list-managers" <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>

I just received the following bounce/error message from AOL:

 >from: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com>
 >Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:23:25 EDT
 >To: <owner-listname@domain>
 >Subject: Mail Delivery Problem
 >
 >Your mail to the following recipients could not be delivered because they
 >are not accepting mail from xxxxxxx@yahoo.com:
 >	userxxxxxx


userxxxxxx@aol.com and xxxxxxx@yahoo.com are both subscribed to this 
list.  AOL gives users the ability to block email from specified addresses 
(blacklist/blocklist).

Is it correct for AOL to send an error message like this to the list-owner 
address when the sender is on the recipient's blocklist?  I can see this 
developing into a real problem if you get a bunch of people who decide to 
killfile someone they don't like and the list manager gets notices from 
each one, each time a post is blocked.



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