Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:40:33 -0400
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This may or may not be happening in your case, but something to look for
is an "innocent bystander." We had a case where AOL was blocking
messages based on a URL in a list member's signature line. Here's what I
wrote to the owner of that list:
Someone is posting a URL (and that post has probably also been quoted
multiple times). The URL in question is probably hosted on the same
server as another site that's the target of a phishing attack or similar.
For example: http://malicious-site.com is hosted at a hosting company
along with a lot of other sites. The host has IP address 1.2.3.4. Thus,
1.2.3.4 winds up on a blacklist. So http://i-am-a-good-site.org, hosted
by the same company, gets blacklisted as well. If that second URL
appears in the body of a post, it will be blocked by AOL.
There is nothing we can do about this, as is the case with almost every
AOL issue.
Hope that helps,
-Andy
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Andy Smith-Petersen
System Administrator
IT Network Services
University of Southern Maine
http://usm.maine.edu/~andysp
Jan Guthrie wrote:
> The other "new" problem we have been having with AOL lately .........
>
> The list that I manage is a "dog list". And with all the food
> recalls lately, multiple weblinks with info about the recall have been
> posted.
>
> AOL is "rejecting for content" certain messages. We have no way to
> isolate which specific messages are being rejected. It just shows up
> in the error summary each day. I have gone back through all the
> messages for a couple of the days, and found no obvious weird URLs.
> Just CNN, MSNBC, Menufoods, etc.
>
> So our AOL listers are missing possibly important info. And the
> second frustrating part is when you tell the list about the problem
> ... some of the AOL subscribers rush to the defense of AOL ...
> swearing that they are missing nothing and AOL is wonderful.
>
> And of course AOL will give us no clues.
>
> Is there anyway to isolate the rejected messages to see what AOL
> considers to be the problem?
>
> Jan Guthrie - OES-L
>
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