[TriLUG] OT: new BS from AOL

[Gregory Woodbury]

"It was written once upon a time (by Greg Brown):"
> 
> This is nice, now I cannot e-mail my uncle, mother and father, or aunt 
> from my home because AOL, in it's freaking "wisdom" has decided not to 
> allow mail from my host since my sendmail box is on a dynamic IP 
> address:
> 
> <<< 550-The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is either open to
> <<< 550-the free relaying of e-mail, is serving as an open proxy, or is 
> a
> <<< 550-dynamic (residential) IP address.  AOL cannot accept further 
> e-mail
> <<< 550-transactions from your server until either your server is 
> closed to
> <<< 550-free relaying/proxy, or your ISP removes your IP address from 
> their
> <<< 550-list of dynamic IP addresses.  For additional information,
> <<< 550-please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
> <<< 550 Goodbye
> 
> Losers.
> 
> Sorry, had to vent.

Yeah

More of the "e-mail tresspassing" meme going around.  Their claim is
that you should be using your ISPs mail relays for your outbound mail. I
had to re-arrange my configuration about 9 months ago to send most mails
out via the Verizon relay for the same reasons.

--Greg