I would guess there is not so much you can do about it unless you can reach them. I do not really see in the returned message that you listed that they have you listed as a domain to not recieve mail from. There is only a '554 TRANSACTION FAILED 554 AOL will not accept delivery of this message' informational message. Doesn't seem to really explain anything. As for refusing mail from a sender based on such reasoning is fruitless. Suppose you spammed aol with email claiming to be from aol. Would they block themselves for receiving mail from themselves? That would be interesting. Anyway, any reputable mail server spam system should verify that the mail is actually coming from a mail server designated to transport mail for the said domain before deciding to block the sending domain. Many are adapting to be able to verify this before even accepting mail. In other words, if you are claiming to be from a domain, your mail delivery better be sent by mailservers list in your DNS entries or I will not accept it for processing. It could be as you say calling it spam because it looks like there are multiple reciepients list. Never know unless they tell you. I would hate to be with aol and subscribed to mailing lists if that were the case. In short, that says nothing for your problem, but it gives me time to spout off about mail. Isn't spam fun? Just keep trying to contact aol and have them explain there message if possible. Let us know if you have any luck. Maybe try sending an email to a single user at aol expecting your message and have them contact aol to ask why it is failing. Sometimes, but not always, the customer is actually important to a company. In this case, you are probably just one in a million complaining that aol is refusing your messages and they probably have little concern for your complaints. ~Greg John Robertson wrote:

Due to that stupid virus that steals email headers it appears that my domain is banished from AOL. Has anyone an idea how these people can continue to receive their mail? Haven't had an infection on any of my computers in years - but I happen to be in a lot of email address books....

Or does AOL call list messages spam as they go to a number of people within a single domain?

My attempts to reach tech support at AOL have proven fruitless.

John :-#(#

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:49:38 -0800 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@flippers.com> To: owner-techtoolslist@flippers.com Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)

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