>It seems to me that putting down AOL serves no purpose.  No provider has
>done more to open the Internet up to the world.  Clearly, there are
>problems, and many of them are the result of the vast number of messages
>that must be processed.

Perhaps that and the recent layoffs of postmaster-related staff. Many of the

folks who cared about AOL's role on the internet are gone now. Some left as
the service became, er, something else... and others were recently laid off.

Regards,

Dave Phillips