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aol no love me

If you have an AOL email account, you won’t be getting any email from me for a while… Why? well I sent an email to several people this afternoon and this is the response I got for the AOL mail exchange:

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Delivery-date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:21:50 -0400
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X-Failed-Recipients: f█████████@aol.com, T████████ @aol.com
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Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:21:49 -0400
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recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

f█████████@aol.com
SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
host mailin-02.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.89]: 550-The IP address you're using to connect to AOL is either open to the
550-free relaying of e-mail, is serving as an open proxy, or is a dynamic
550-(residential) IP address. AOL cannot accept further e-mail
550-transactions from your server until either your server is closed to free
550-relaying/proxy, or your ISP removes your IP address from their list of
550-dynamic IP addresses. For additional information, please visit
550 http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
T████████@aol.com
SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
host mailin-02.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.89]: 550-The IP address you're using to 
connect to AOL is either open to the
550-free relaying of e-mail, is serving as an open proxy, or is a dynamic
550-(residential) IP address. AOL cannot accept further e-mail
550-transactions from your server until either your server is closed to free
550-relaying/proxy, or your ISP removes your IP address from their list of
550-dynamic IP addresses. For additional information, please visit
550 http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
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Subject: Oh man... do you talk like this?
From: ":: beggs ::" 
To: b███████████████@hotmail.com, l████████████@hotmail.com, T████████@aol.com, s███████@gmu.edu, f█████████@aol.com, b███████@postmark.net
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Organization: my own sick little world!
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Date: 19 May 2003 18:28:43 +0000
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AOL no love me. No I figure aol did this because they are trying to fight spam, which I completely understand—I redacted the email addresses in this post for the same reason. Spam, bad! But, bottom line, I can’t email anyone with an AOL address… ‘Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely Spam!’