[Icom] Fwd: [QSL-Net] AOL Again

Sun, 4 Apr 2004 17:17:21 -0400

Why do we expect to be "protected" from everything? Do we really want a
machine deciding what mail gets through and what gets blocked?  Do we want
the Post Office deciding what mail to deliver and what to throw away?  If we
do, good stuff will inevitably get blocked with the bad, and perhaps that's
what has been happening the past week or two.  E-Mail, like all technology,
comes with a few annoyances. We just have to tell our ISP's to drop the
anti-SPAM software, and handle the problems ourselves....the DELETE key
works just fine. My 2 cents.... 73, Jerry K3BZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Bottger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Icom] Fwd: [QSL-Net] AOL Again

> Thanks for your insight.  The obvious work
> around is for the sender/software to segment
> the membership list into blocks below the
> "AOL" threshold.  However, this is another
> fine example of our RIGHT of free association
> being trampled upon in the name of protecting
> the innocent from abusive spammers.
>
>
>
> > One thing that many of the "biggie" servers do in the
> > attempt to protect its users from SPAM is determine
> > the number of addressees of any given message.
> >
> > What was the figure I read a week or two back about
> > the size of this Icom list?  Something over 1000, if I
> > remember correctly.
> >
> > I believe it might be reasonable to assume that the
> > rejections by AOL, Juno, or others might lie here.
> >
> > Mac, K2GKK/5
> > Oklahoma City
> >
> >
>
>
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