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

[William Bottger]

Two choices: 
Pay AOL to allow passthru of all messages from QTH.NET 
 OR
SUE THEM IN A COURT OF LAW!

73 , bill, KI4CYM


> That is the point I was trying to make, Dick.
> 
> I guess my message may have been a bit
> inexact.
> 
> 73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5
> 
> 
> At 01:26 PM 4/4/2004, you wrote:
>  >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.
> 
> The number of addressees on a given reflector message
> is one; yours.  For a thousand members, a thousand
> different messages are sent.  I think the problem is AOL
> sees thousands of incoming messages from a QTH.net
> address, and it figures they are spam.
> 
> During an average month, this reflector alone will send
> out a million individual e-mails.  Not all to AOL, certainly,
> but when you take all the many many QTH.net
> reflectors we have, the message traffic can look very
> suspicious to a large ISP.
> 
> 73, Dick