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>of course, blocking @aol.com is going to stop 99% of it.  it seems aol
>exploded into spam central again recently.  i'm very close to applying a
>corporate blackhole list locally AND TO RBL, AGAINST AOL if aol doesn't
>take steps to make spamming from them less lucrative.

There are 2 problems with that:
1. Legitimate beastium users on AOL will get blocked.
2. A lot of spam has AOL forged in the from: line but really came from
someplace else...

>> Received: from imo26.mx.aol.com (imo26.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.70])
>>     by Desk.nl (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA22996
>>     for <beastium-list AT desk DOT nl>; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:08:55 +0100

....but this particular specimen does seem to be a geniune AOL spam.
Reverse-lookup on 198.81.17.70 even gives imo26.mx.aol.com...
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