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Subject: Re: AOL bounce message due to an AOL user's
From: JC Dill <inet-list @ vo . cnchost . com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:49:24 -0700
To: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.OSX.4.49.999.0210260535540.767-100000@betty.goldmark.private>
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On 05:42 AM 10/26/02, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

 >I'm coming to agree with you (and am revising my initial stance based on
 >what you and others have written).  This really is an automated user end
 >mail filtering.  It shouldn't really be generating bounces.

What's really odd about this is that the AOL filters are infamous for 
swallowing email without a trace.  Often AOL users who use whitelists bid 
on something on eBay and then can't get email from the seller because the 
seller isn't on the whitelist (and a well known work-around is to send 
email thru eBay's "contact a user" interface, because then the email comes 
thru eBay, which may be whitelisted).  The seller doesn't get *any* 
response when sending email to winners with this type of filter.

So why am I getting bounce messages to the list manager email address?  I 
wonder if AOL has changed how they process "filtered" messages...

jc



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