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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chris Buxton wrote:
> >>Would you like to explain that again? Are you saying that any AOL user
> >>who doesn't configure this filter doesn't get any mail whatsoever?
> >
> >	Yup.
> 
> That sounds ridiculous. You're asserting that a newbie AOL user with 
> a new account, by default, will not be able to receive mail from 
> anyone at all. They'll never get any email at all. The only possible 
> exception is other AOL users.
> 
> Is that really what you're saying? I don't have an AOL account, so I 
> can't debate the point with facts, but it sounds like it would be a 
> good way for AOL to lose customers in a hurry.

This sounds like what people have told me, when I tried to send them
e-mail.  Supposedly, this policy is explained to them, and they have a
choice to let everything through [I think] or allow only specific
addresses through.  Not having sat in front of AOL, I cannot tell
whether this is exactly correct.  ISTM, in fact, that nobody I know who
uses AOL has sufficient technical savvy to be able to answer this
question with the requisite degree of precision.

And Brad wouldn't know for sure, since there have been innumerable
changes in mail policy since he last worked for AOL.  ;-)

> That would be pretty cool, actually. If every mail server that uses 
> PTR record filtering had an easy way to do this, I would stop 
> objecting to PTR record filters.

As Brad said, this should be an easy mod to (e.g.) 'swatch'.

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