Re: AOL scomp

From: Jim Segrave (no email)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 05:48:11 EST

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    On Tue 01 Mar 2005 (22:36 -0500), Joe Maimon wrote:
    >
    >
    > Barry Shein wrote:
    > >
    > >On March 1, 2005 at 14:17 (Jim Segrave) wrote:
    > > > I don't understand this complaint - we process AOL TOS Notifications
    > > > daily and I find perhaps 1 in a hundred or so are not valid complaints.
    > >
    > >Here about 99% are not valid or interesting.
    > >
    > >Which is to say, I had one small burst once caused by an infected
    > >customer machine which we got shut off fast and fixed.
    > >
    > >The rest are virtually all just people on mailing lists hosted here
    > >sending each and every completely on-topic posting to TOS.
    > >
    > >I suppose I should figure out some way to track them so I can boot
    > >them off those lists since AOL removes all identifying information.
    > >
    >
    > Apparently the ratio of valid/invalid AOL notifications is a usefull
    > indicator on the cleanliness of the relevant network.

    Or alternatively, some networks have few users who communicate with
    AOL customers - they aren't currently big-time in the Netherlands -
    and the ratio of valid to invalid complaints has sweet FA to do with
    anything else. We don't set up mail forwarding for residential
    customers so that's another non-issue.

    -- 
    Jim Segrave           
    

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