Comments on: Funny AOL Bounce Message http://iamzed.com/2006/10/12/funny-aol-bounce-message/ All the Good Titles Were Taken Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:50:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stan p. http://iamzed.com/2006/10/12/funny-aol-bounce-message/#comment-18 Sun, 13 May 2007 23:57:08 +0000 http://www.iamzed.com/2006/10/12/funny-aol-bounce-message/#comment-18 I got the same thing. Apparently it is intended for dormant AOL accounts. The key is the “550″, which is supposed to mean “no such user”.

At first I thought it indicated to indicate I hadn’t logged onto *my* AOL account, which made no sense because I never had an AOL account.

It’s obviously just a very poorly written bounce message, because a “550″ (“no such user”) would imply that “their free AIM Mail account” does not even exist.

In either case it doesn’t make sense, because presumably the user used that address to receive yahoogroup mail and the only way to do that is to verify an email address. It could be an error in a forwarded message, but I saw nothing in the headers to suggest that.

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