I think that the "shotgun" effect comes because there are many AOL email
servers, and they are NOT all configured the same.  I don't know what
they do to mirror the filter settings and other essentials on their servers, but
it isn't very consistent.

On 23 Mar 2001, at 8:37, John L. Mottl wrote:

> I think AOL is running some sort of shotgun anti-spam filter that blasts
> anything sending out a lot of mail no matter what it is.
>