Wash Post: AOL Blocks Spammers' Web Sites

not bad till innocent sites get caught in the middle

[walkman]

with fake e-mails. I got e-mails even from the pope :)

"America Online Inc. has adopted a new tactic against spam: blocking its members' ability to see Web sites promoted by bulk e-mailers."

and this: "She said she worries that system could be abused by someone seeking to block a rival's Web site by spamming AOL members with that link."

[story.news.yahoo.com...]
edited to provide registration free link.

[blaze]

Awesome! Great way to take out the competition.

I sure wish they would hurry up with domain keys.

[iThink]

What a cost effective method to take out competitor's sites. Just pay $50-$100 for sending out a million emails to AOL addresses with the competitors domain in it and that domain is taken out by AOL. They could not have been more stupid.

[blaze]

Not to mention how absolutely impossible it will be for someone to track that .. not like Spammers are going to be going around giving up customer lists.