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

[Derek J. Balling]

On Feb 27, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Alan Brown 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?

I believe he forwarded it to abuse at aol.com, which is all he/she  
should have to do. Any discussion about "other addresses or points of  
contact" is not terribly relevant to the discussion at hand.

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

Unknown, but some answers might presumably be:

  "because he/she wants to receive mail from valid AOL users"
  "because he/she doesn't control the mail servers at his ISP and has  
not got that level of control."

D

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