You might find this article interesting regarding AOL.
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=2568
S. D. Dobbs
Hercules Incorporated
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Subject: Re: Daily error monitoring report-- steamrolling AOL?
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