>>>The post office sees "bulk mail" on a piece of mail and they may set it
aside until the holiday season is over, or the new guy comes in on Monday,
or whatever. But they don't throw it out.<<<
It would be wrong for USPS to delay my VISA payment in order to deliver a
postcard about a lawn service - because I paid more for postage.
USPS gets paid less to deliver a piece of bulk mail - the sender understands
that, and the recipient will tell you he doesn't want it.
On the Internet, mailing list hosts are usually the ones who pay more - and
recipients clearly want their list mail.
I take your point about wanting sales emails - who wouldn't? You're
fortunate if the totality of your regular email is higher quality than the
list mail you get - but you DO want the list mail.
Removing the Precedence header does no injustice. Maybe someone waits an
extra 20 minutes for an order they didn't know was coming - but someone else
gets a response on a mailing list 20 minutes sooner.
It's a wash.
My point here is that the assumption that list mail is inferior, or less
desirable than other mail actually contributes to the problem we're having
in getting it delivered.
Anyway, I need more information before taking it to my AOL users. So far I
have only rumors about other IMail lists and other list servers being
affected - but I DO have a competitor who is definitely NOT having trouble
with AOL.
It would be helpful to know if anyone here knows whether other list servers
have better luck with AOL using "Precedence: list" instead of "Precedence:
bulk".
And it would be helpful to hear from others who might want to figure out how
much of their list mail gets through to AOL users.
Gary Mauer
Window Cleaning Network
Picnic is August 4, 2001
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, USA
www.window-cleaning-net.com
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