Just noticed this on Spam-L:
http://postmaster.aol.com/info/spf.html
The good bit:
"Why should I list my SPF record, if I don't use it (or don't want to use
it) to fight spam on my inbound systems?
AOL will begin using SPF records to maintain our whitelist in the near
future. If you want to remain on AOL's whitelist, you will need to establish
an SPF record for your domain as AOL will begin to query whitelisted IP
addresses from a domain's SPF record shortly. Without an SPF record, your
whitelist entries may expire."
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