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

[Leonard Mills]

On 27.02 09:34, Derek J. Balling wrote:

> -	AOL.com, after $VICTIM'S_IP (or maybe e-mail address, don't know),  
> sends "N" messages, views this as an attack and ceases accepting  
> abuse@ messages from this IP/address.
> 
> -	$VICTIM requests (there's no submission yet, so don't bother  
> looking) that we list AOL.COM in the abuse zone
> 
> .... is aol.com rfc-ignorant for the abuse zone?

I would suggest not.

I would suggest that $VICTIM consider a permanent error to AOL's
connection attempts, perhaps with a 5.1.8:554 status.  And with
a perhaps thread on nan-ae.  But not with abuse of their own.

Len