At 08:22 9/24/98 -0700, Joe Georges said:
|Has anyone else noticed an apparent increase during the last few weeks of
|bounces of list messages to subscribers with aol addresses? I am getting
|error messages saying that the users are unknown.

Yes and it has been reported to AOL who has responded. ...

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:12:51 EDT, in bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l Phil Wilkin
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:41:55 EDT John Hammond said:
>If anyone hears from AOL, please let the list know what they have to say.

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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:14:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Scott Crain (AOL Postmaster)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Phil Wilkin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 501 Data format error

AOL did a configuration change that resulted in refusal of all
source-routed addresses. You have a couple options... 1: Wait 'til we
back
it out, which is in planning now, or change your mailserver to use a
non-source-routed address in the MAIL FROM: SMTP envelope.

SCott


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Scott Crain
AOL/GNN Postmaster
Internet Development Outreach & Technology Group
America Online, Inc.
email: [log in to unmask]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Phil Wilkin wrote:

> Our email to aol.com from radar.bgsu.edu via trapper.bgsu.edu is being
> rejected with a 501 Data format error.  Why?
>
> Phil Wilkin, Postmaster for Radar