[epub] Re: AOL

[Ross Hall <ross.hall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 01:32 AM, Henrik Leghissa wrote:
> I'm glad to hear that you at least got some success in contacting 
> them, the biggest ISP in Sweden, Telia, apparently got blocked due to 
> some of their customers having insecure (windows) machines together 
> with open relays being hosts for spammers and viruses and Telia had no 
> apparent luck to get in contact with AOL, though I don't doubt that it 
> also could've been Telia's fault, as their organization isn't the 
> fastest and most efficient in the business.

There's a "contact us" or feedback form accessible from their home 
page. Shouldn't be too hard to manage!
> What ISP do you use for connectivity to the internet?

NTL, but the domains affected were non-NTL ones.

> When the issue of ALL mail-traffic from Telia getting blocked was 
> resolved, the computers that ran in Telia's network weren't able to 
> host their own smtp-servers for example. This I noticed when trying to 
> send email to AOL (and some other american ISPs), which I resolved by 
> having my ISPs main smtp-server stand as a "smartrelay" in my 
> mailserver's configuration.
>
> Maybe the above could be something for you and others Ross?!
I had to duck as the last sentence flew over my head!



Ross ;-))

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