AOL temporarily filters mail from Yale accounts
After what an America Online spokesman described as "a huge spike in the amount and volume of e-mails" received from the Yale e-mail server, the Internet service provider has temporarily blocked mail to its users from certain Yale IP addresses.
AOL users have received tens of thousands more e-mails from Yale addresses than the usual levels, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Monday. He said the increase, which began April 2, may be related to an April Fool's Day hoax or scam that senders of spam used to compromise Yale machines.
"It's very unusual," Graham said....
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