>It may just be me but my first impressions are that AOL-users have a bigger >tendency to just disappear than any other netropolitan. Consequently most >delivery problems occur with @aol.com addresses. No, it's not your imagination. I think it's just that AOL allows a free trial period, people sign up for it, then don't unsub from lists before their trial runs out. (AOLians also end up generating the vast majority of our "mailbox full" error messages, which does *not* endear them to us, I must admit. And AOLians tend to be well represented among the clueless newbie set, save in the fall when the freshman classes join up.) (You think it's bad now, btw? Just wait until the Windows 95 hordes appear over the horizons ... ) >2) I'm thinking of adding some sort of BlackList to my > subscription-software, thus allowing me to "outlaw" users from aol.com. > Although I find that this may be a bit over the edge, what is your > opinion on this? I've heard of one listowner who has done this, but it's terribly unfair to the vast majority of responsible AOLians. We *do*, however, immediately unsub any aol account at the first "user unknown" message we get, whereas we evaluate other such error messages on their individual merits (i.e., does that particular address have regular problems resulting in "user unknown" messages, and does the listowner on duty at the time feel murderous (delete) or charitable (set nomail). If we had a *lot* of aolians, though, and a high traffic list ... I dunno. >Maurice Hendrix INTERNET:[log in to unmask] ARM Powered Mario Rups [log in to unmask]