Anthony Atkielski wrote: > AOL bounces all of my e-mail, but they are unable to explain > why they are doing this. I get: [<02>] The reason of the delivery failure was: 550-The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a dynamic (residential) 550-IP address. AOL will not accept future e-mail transactions from your 550-IP address until your ISP removes your IP from its list of dynamic 550-(residential) IP addresses. For additional information, please visit 550-http://postmaster.info.aol.com. 550 Goodbye It is not viable for me to refuse mail from AOL since my wife's nephew works there so most of her family uses AOL for email. > ... > I agree. And AOL is a major offender in many ways. There's > the real Internet, and then there's the "AOL Internet"--not > unlike the Matrix, actually. I was not AOL bashing, because they are not the only ones doing this. I was also not claiming that ops was clueless for what they were doing here. I was simply trying to point out the current state leaves them little choice, and a very dangerous precedent is set as a result. As Vixie has pointed out, the current state of affairs is the result of the protocol design. We as the IETF need to step up and provide an alternate design if we want the system to change. Some components of a new design need to be a viable trust model, and irrefutable traceability. The IETF can't do social engineering, but can provide the framework for others to do so. In that light, we simply need to get on with the task at hand and create a replacement protocol. Tony