Re: Medit-Plants blocked by aol

That's right.  It seems that AOL is doing things differently than most ISPs
in order to take a bite out of spam.  AOL has recently become very
aggressive about shielding their customers from spam.  Since a lot of
small-time spammers run mail servers out of their home on their DSL or cable
modem connections, AOL is trying to not accept mail that originates from a
home mail server.  AOL therefore takes IP addresses of well-known cable and
DSL companies and blocks them.  This will not affect mail that comes from
e-mail user agents in homes sent through the ISP's mail servers, only mail
that is sent from a mail server in a home.

It sounds like there may be a combination of things going on.  One is with
AOL protocol itself and another is with what Diane mentions in that folks
are configuring their own email filters.

Katherine Hubbard
San Ramon, CA
USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 14


> I am on an ISP that uses satellite transmission (Direcway.com - Hughes
> Electronics) and can't send or receive messages from AOL members.  I get
> "Illegal Host" errors.  My friends and I think this has to do with
anti-spam
> protocols used by the providers, or that they are angry with one another
for
> some reason.
>
> It may or may not make any difference if the message is being delivered
> through a list server.
>
> Richard F. Dufresne
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