On 2/4/06, Roger Burns <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Here's an informative article from tomorrow's New York Times: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/technology/05AOL.html > > And here's an interesting quote from there: > > > Users will be able to specify that unpaid messages from a particular > > person or company should never be treated as spam, as they can do > > now. > > That might be a saving grace for list mail. But users will in effect > have to actively opt out of the new no-more-mass-whitelist AOL policy. > This may be a significant technical barrier for a number of > unsophisticated users, no matter how easy it may seem for us technical > wizards. > > Also: while users might be allowed to whitelist addresses that appear > in the From: field, will they be allowed to do so for the Sender: > field, which is the only way to identify a list's address in incoming > mail? If not, then we Listserv people are still up a creek. I can't speak to AOL's whitelist process, but using Earthlink as an example, I can whitelist domains (and, Earthlink's whitelist process seems to look at more than just the From field) I have no hopes that AOL's individual whitelist process has any reasonableness. -- David Phillips Molon Labe ! 35° 46' N , 78° 48'W Lose Not A Minute!