>>>What would be nice would be if IMail allowed you to choose between 'bulk'
and 'list'. That way, the intent of the Precedence: header would still
work.<<<
Please excuse me - I'm about to rant, but it's nothing personal......
I feel like AOL is the bully here - and I'm probably madder at them than you
are.
But if they are the bully, I feel like "Precedence: bulk" is the little
paper sign somebody taped to my back that says, "Please kick me!"
If the original intent of "Precedence: bulk" was ONLY to flag list mail as
less important, then as far as I'm concerned, somebody blew it.
I guess if I were only interested in finding mail to delay or dump, I would
be very appreciative of the original intent of the Precedence: header.
But I'm hurting - really hurting - because of this situation. I can't
believe that very many other mailing list owners appreciate IMail serving up
a big fat invitation for an outfit like AOL to dump list mail.
And whether or not it turns out that the Precedence: header is a
contributing factor, it really ought to go, because list mail is NOT junk
mail. Don't snicker, but if anything, list mail should be higher priority
than "regular" mail, because it's important to so many more people.
I don't care if it's Beanie Babies, NT engineers or window cleaners, people
stay on mailing lists because they really want the mail. But if 20% of the
people on the mailing list don't get their mail, it means hundreds -
sometimes thousands of people get 20% less of whatever they joined that list
for.
Think about it - if I send you a private message, there is only ONE person
waiting to see what you have to say in response - me.
If I send you a message via a mailing list, literally hundreds await your
response. If you don't get the message, hundreds are deprived of what you
might have had to say about it.
That's a big deal.
Gary Mauer
Window Cleaning Network
Picnic is August 4, 2001
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
www.window-cleaning-net.com
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