Re: [Flora-help] [Fwd: AOL email concerns for flora.ca]

Bill Royds wrote:
> Russell, a spammer has been forging the Greenspace Alliance domain 
> name (greenspace-alliance.ca) as "From:" in a spam campaign since 
> November (over 20K bounces in my file). Perhaps AOL is incorrectly 
> associating spam with the forged source domain. As we are certainly 
> not sending it, we can do nothing about it, except perhaps change our
> domain name and remove the original.

   I would suggest that this is "worse than nothing".  Being forced to
change a domain name because a proprietary email service is
mis-identifying the source of a SPAM?  We are all better off just
letting AOL slowly drop off of the Internet.

   Having too many people using the same email service is generally a 
bad idea, as it encourages those providers to try to break Internet 
standards and cause problems for everyone.   This is what happened with 
the "Email Caller-ID" stuff where Microsoft deliberately killed the 
initiative with stealth patents.

> Do you have the actual email from AOL. I would like to look at its
> headers and see if AOL actually sent this.

   The Received-by: headers did suggest it came from AOL, but without
digital signatures and secure SMTP there isn't any way to confirm.

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Re: [Flora-help] [Fwd: AOL email concerns for flora.ca]