December 14, 2003

Arrgh! Blocked by AOL

Posted by Larry Karnowski at December 14, 2003 5:30 PM

All, if you're using an AOL email account and wondering why I haven't emailed you in a while -- well, I probably have! For some reason (well, I can guess) AOL has been blocking incoming email from our work mail server, and I route both my work and personal email through that server. (I have a password, I can do that.)

So, if you're wondering, that's why.

And why are we blocked? Because someone was attacking our secondary mail server and attempting to send spam through it. Somehow that tripped the spam blacklist that AOL uses. I guess a couple of spams did get through. Hmmm, I'll have to pester the Racoon Fink about that one, since he runs our servers.