[SC-Help] AOL Issue

[Chris Wright]

It was mentioned in another thread, but I have never been able to find 
any other mention of it.

I've been a user of SPAMCOP for a few years now, and have no problems 
with reporting of SPAM etc.

A good few months back I started getting failure messages back from AOL 
when I used accounts that I forward SPAM from to SPAMCOP.

Something along the lines of "AOL is not able to process your email 
because it comes from a domain that reports SPAM".

Was this ever discussed on SPAMCOP?

Are you aware of any other ISP's/Organizations that do similar.

As I have always considered AOL one level above amoeba, it wasn't a 
problem to me.  I contacted the AOL users via GMAIL and forwarded them a 
copy of the returned mail headers.  Showing them that they won't allow 
people who report SPAM to send them mail, let alone those that send SPAM 
in the first place.  Most were offended enough to ditch AOL, or at least 
complain and for everyone person I get to quit AOL, the better I feel.

Does anyone know their justification for doing this?

Why would people I consider responsible, or part of the fight against 
SPAM be targeted by AOL ?

I can't see their rationale behind it? (Maybe their abuse department is 
far too overstretched as is, but a simple filter to ditch/bin/redirect 
mail from SPAMCOP abuse would suffice?).

As one AOL user pointed out to me, they still get a ton of SPAM so their 
policies can't be that effective.


Just curious as to if this was discussed previously.

Regards

Chris

ps. Hope this is the right group for this discussion.