[TriLUG] Re: AOL up to it's old tricks

[Dan Monjar]

--On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 01:24:32 AM -0400 "Lance A. Brown" 
<lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:09, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>> So the buttheads at AOL are locking out the legitimate SMTP mail relays
>> for RoadRunner?  I hit this yesterday trying to email my bother and
>> sister who both use AOL. :-|
>
> For those who might care:  I just got off a tech chat with RR technical
> support.  They are aware of this issue and are working on it.  As a
> friend of mine translated:   'in short, the admin at rr.com is calling
> up the admin at aol.com going "what the fuck are you smoking?!"'
>
> *grin*
>

Also, as of 10/1 apparently, AOL is doing a reverse DNS lookup on the 
sending SMTP box.  ALL mail from my company to AOL was bouncing until I 
could get the reverse RR in place.

-- 
Dan
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