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Hi: Regarding AOL's blacklisting of (some? all?) pilot.msu.edu servers while mail.msu.edu would be less likely to be blacklisted due to the authenti- cation requirement, it occurs to me that it may be time again to point the "msu.edu" MX DNS record at mail.msu.edu servers instead of pilot servers. I seem to recall that this was done for a while until the stability problems with mail.msu.edu arose, and then was switched back (correct me if I am misremembering). I have already gotten a complaint from a professor whose mail to one of his students, addressed to "[log in to unmask]" where xxxxxxxx was the student's MSUNet ID, bounced -- the student had set a forwarding address to an AOL account. AOL saw the E-mail come from one of the blacklisted pilot servers and bounced it. It may not really make much of a difference, in that if a user has not converted to mail.msu.edu, the mail will probably still have pilot as its last stop before heading out to AOL (as mail.msu.edu would probably forward a message to pilot.msu.edu for an un-converted user), but if the user has converted already, then the mail message never has to touch pilot systems at all. Now that mail.msu.edu appears to have stabilized, however, the DNS record change may just be a good idea for pilot system load reasons, independent of AOL's blacklist. Anyway, it's a thought I had. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- George J Perkins http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/perkins/ 1209B BPS Bldg, MSU Phone: 517-355-9200 ext 2567 East Lansing, MI 48824-2320 FAX: 517-353-4500