[RFCI-Discuss] Posit: abuse@aol.com - traceback

[Alan Brown]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Derek J. Balling wrote:

> -	After failing to get anyone at AOL's attention, $VICTIM configures
> their system to generate an e-mail to abuse at aol.com for each
> individual message of those 1500+ messages

Who did $VICTIM speak to? Was he/she given a runaround?

Why didn't victom just 5xx refuse all messages from AOL's servers?


#1 is a deadly serious question and would be even better if backed up
with a mail trail (or notes from phone calls)

There have been smilar reports recently and when I've spoken to the
_real_ people at AOL who can and do block forgery bounces(*) whacking
victims, they've not had th ecase referred to them and there's no record
of the complaint - clearly some heads need to roll, however finding
those heads is the hard part


(*) AOL _are_ working on preventing them happening at all,
    it's already down 95+% on what it used to be.

Other discussions on merits of listing should be discussed
in another thread fork.