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. >