On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Aldo-Pier Solari wrote: > List owners > Postmaster at AOL > > To me, it looks that AOL users will have problems in my conference > if the provider DOES NOT take any measures to AVOID the HUGE number > of bounces due to: > > 1. disk quota exceeded; > 2. unknown user; > 3. users who do not check in; > 4. users who do not pay their fees. > > As a matter of fact, I am somehow disgusted (yes, disgusted) with > the relative frequency of such technical TROUBLE most AOL users > create in the conference I manage. > > > Finally, a question: Why does this never happen with COMPUSERVE ?. > Perhaps they have some routine which avoid the technical mess ?. > > Aldo-Pier [log in to unmask] > Aldo-Pier, you are over-generalizing. My list has 20 AOL subscribers and 2 COMPUSERVE subscribers. It is the CompuServe subscribers who are likely to generate the DISK QUOTA EXCEEDED error messages; in fact I received a number of such messages relating to one CompuServe subscriber earlier today. Judith Hopkins, Listowner of Autocat [log in to unmask]