] 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.