Here's an informative article from tomorrow's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html
And here's an interesting quote from there:
> Users will be able to specify that unpaid messages from a particular
> person or company should never be treated as spam, as they can do
> now.
That might be a saving grace for list mail. But users will in effect
have to actively opt out of the new no-more-mass-whitelist AOL policy.
This may be a significant technical barrier for a number of
unsophisticated users, no matter how easy it may seem for us technical
wizards.
Also: while users might be allowed to whitelist addresses that appear
in the From: field, will they be allowed to do so for the Sender:
field, which is the only way to identify a list's address in incoming
mail? If not, then we Listserv people are still up a creek.
- Roger Burns
Manager of CFS lists based at ICORS.org,
Charitable Listserv sponsored by L-Soft