From: "Mike Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A couple days ago, I set up AOL's "feedback loop" (though the loop part is
a
> misnomer, since you can't actually respond to the messages) so I could
> monitor complaints against my employer's servers. Looking through the
> messages AOL says their members reported as spam, I noticed that none of
> them actually originated on my servers; they were all messages that were
> sent to addresses at the servers, then forwarded to AOL accounts, and
since
> AOL records the IPs of all servers the message touched, I'm tainted by
them.
Er, turn off your open relay as a starter. What you described is typical
open relay performance. And of course it taints you. The spammers are
simply relaying off your system. Until you stop the spam relays you
have no leg to stand on.
Of course, if they are legitimate mailing list messages and some twit
has decided reporting list messages as spam is a good way to get off
the list there's nothing you can do unless AOL tells you which list
member(s) complained. This is an annoying habit entirely too many
people have.
{^_^}
