AOL Blocks Comcast, Roadrunner Emails

America Online is now rejecting "suspicious" emails delivered directly from residential Comcat and Roadrunner IP addresses . AOL and Comcast will be blocking emails originating from personally hosted mail servers.

"Those customers who are using their own residential mail relays to send e-mail to AOL members have been identified by their dynamically assigned IP addresses as a source of spam by our members, and we have taken action to thwart their illicit activity to protect our members' online experience," AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said.

More Info: CNet News

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JacobM5727
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Location: Herndon VA
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22 Years old, Student at Devry

everyone is gonna go hotmail and people are going to get very pissed

4-1-2003 9:35pm

osprey4
Let's go, Hokies!

Registered: 9/2001
Location: South Jersey
Posts: 7171

Six feet tall

I think this is great. I've already got my filters to block CC and RR, as well as Hotmail and the other spamster-prevalent e-mail domains. The ISPs are the ones at fault.

4-2-2003 11:59am

embj
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Registered: 11/2002
Location: Fayetteville, NC
Posts: 1385

%SYSTEMROOT% is the root of all evil. Muhahaha.

Yeah, this explains why I had problems sending email to one of my friends on AOL. I suspected something like this when I researched it on AOL's support. It said something about dynamic IP addresses and relaying. I have RR. :\ Although I have a dynamic IP address my IP hasn't changed probably in about 6 months.
I mainly use my webmaster website email address which just uses RR server to send mail and not receive mail. I can't stand this anti-spam movement.

4-3-2003 6:26pm

NeoStarO1
Ordained Mommy

Registered: 9/2001
Location: Big Sky Country
Posts: 4067

Well this is really cute (sarcasticly said) ATTBI just got merged with comcast and most of my family is on aol. so does this mean im not gonna be able to email them?

4-3-2003 6:40pm

zadora
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Registered: 5/2003
Posts: 1

Now maybe AOL will realize why so many of us have left and gone to rr or cc. Family and friends cannot be contacted now -- maybe they will change too!

6-8-2003 6:29pm