A discussion Mark
and I were having turned towards email—specifically, sending email to AOL.
He's communicating with some people who use AOL and is concerned about his email getting through. He
heard that AOL had proposed some
new DNS record and was
curious if I heard anything about it. I had not, but I started doing a Google search.
Going through the results, I came across a link to the AOL Postmaster Info page, a
document that describes how AOL
handles email and the criteria they use to accept or reject email. There is
some very good information here (for all the ribbing AOL gets from the rest of the Internet, their
infrastructure and networking architecture is incredible and they certainly
know what they're doing technically, if only to handle the millions of
subscribers).
You have my permission to link freely to any entry here. Go
ahead, I won't bite. I promise.
The dates are the permanent links to that day's entries (or
entry, if there is only one entry). The titles are the permanent
links to that entry only. The format for the links are
simple: Start with the base link for this site: https://boston.conman.org/, then add the date you are
interested in, say 2000/08/01,
so that would make the final URL:
https://boston.conman.org/2000/08/01
You can also specify the entire month by leaving off the day
portion. You can even select an arbitrary portion of time.
You may also note subtle shading of the links and that's
intentional: the “closer” the link is (relative to the
page) the “brighter” it appears. It's an experiment in
using color shading to denote the distance a link is from here. If
you don't notice it, don't worry; it's not all that
important.
It is assumed that every brand name, slogan, corporate name,
symbol, design element, et cetera mentioned in these pages is a
protected and/or trademarked entity, the sole property of its
owner(s), and acknowledgement of this status is implied.
