At 17:29 01/16/2004 Friday, Andrew Bosch wrote:

 >You would think that AOL would be running a backbone node, considering the
 >volume of mail they handle. They already have a leaf node.

Once upon a time, I thought that they did.

They probably black-listed their upstream listserv site (perhaps PLUM or
CHERRY)  and then all H-ee-double-hockeysticks broke lose.

/P