Sat, 3 Aug 1996 01:36:00 GMT
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] Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
] AOL runs one of the largest LISTSERV sites in the world, with a total of
] 461,503 subscribers, of which I imagine many are from AOL. That's 270
] times more subscribers than FISH-ECOLOGY has. What makes you think that
] they aren't aware of the problem or that they aren't working on
] it?
(1) Their results. This issue was discussed twice in this forum
during the past 18 months. Nothing has changed. 18 months
to fix this is more than "light-years" in the networking
world;
(2) AOLs Postmaster is asking for solutions. To me, it sounds
funny. Perhaps, just a PR-trick. Anyhow, the problem is
not fixed up but growing all the time.
] Did AOL ever say that they weren't going to work on this?
They said (twice) they'd address the problem. But nothing
changed. And I AM NOT "shooting first and asking later". The
issue has been discussed earlier here but there are no results.
In the case of FISH-ECOLOGY (and *perhaps* other academic fora)
AOL/COMPUSERVE/etc. customers, with no-academic background, are
allowed into the conference due to *courtesy*. AOL is
indirectly making profits from both infrastructures set up and
run with tax money and from list owners' hard work. And, in my
view, we are getting pumpgun-shots in exchange. I do not like
this. I do not like to read PR-chat from AOLs postmaster every
time one addresses the "bouncing-problem". Only results count
and dicipline in the .com-provider-world has shown bad-to-worse.
That is *my* opinion.
Aldo-Pier Solari/FISH-ECOLOGY.
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