On Fri, 23 May 1997, Windansea Publishing wrote:

> As you may be aware, AOL has implemented a filter that
> blocks *any* domain that send more than 500k through
> their system. Since the majority of lists contain as high
> as 75% AOL addresses, what are you paying for?

The above is an extract from a spam I got today, a spam offering a
service to facilitate spamming! Obviously, I am 100% against spamming,
but it does raise a point of concern for me.

Is it true that AOL has implemented such a filter, and does that mean that
mail coming from a LISTSERV service could cause the server's domain to be
filtered out by the AOL mail system?

If there is someone from AOL on this list, and this is true, then can you
convince me not to alter my site configuration file to prevent any AOL
user subscribing to any of my lists?

John

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
John Asher                Stage 3 MBBS, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
AIESEC UK IS Manager                    http://www.aiesec.org/uk/infosys/
AIESEC LISTSERV Manager           http://www.aiesec.org/insight/dialogue/
Newcastle Kingsmen webmaster     http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n4128220/kingsmen/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-