larry price wrote:
On 2/22/06, Edward Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We lack AOL membership, although we do have subscribers from Yahoo accounts and
Yahoo is in on this scheme as well, but Move On chooses, for whatever reason,
to concentrate on AOL.
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From: Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Civic Action < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 22, 2006 12:38 PM
Subject: Stop AOL's email scheme
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AOL is threatening the Internet as we know it.
They want to charge an "email tax" for sending email. Those who don't pay would
risk their emails not being delivered.
Umm, I hate to say it but alarmist nonsense like this is why
moveon.org isn't taking the democratic party by storm any longer.
The main reason moveon isn't taking them by storm is because the
demo party is in a coma.
AOL's actual plan amounts "bribe us to get on the whitelist" but plain
old smtp will still get through if passes the spam filtering AOL
applies, too many of AOL's customer's use their accounts for business
for anything else to be viable.
I work with several (subscription only non-profit) mailing lists.
Getting messages to AOL and Yahoo addresses is hit or miss,
usually miss. The subscribers assume it is a mailing list problem.
It rarely is. It is more a problem of those ISPs using a broad brush
to paint over spam sites. (If you have an IP address that is close
to a spam site, watch out.)
moveon.org is mostly upset because their "Urgent Alert"'s and
fundraising appeals are getting caught in the trap.
Moveon is subscription only. It is inappropriate for AOL to
block those messages.
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public. --- Theodore Roosevelt
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