If I may point out, it does allow for some client sorting and filtering.
Take a look at Hotmail's inBox Protector. Basically all it does is sort
"Bulk" Email into a separate mailbox. I would hope that Imail might (or
Killer Web Mail) might add this function. It would also be a great addition
to any Client side Email program since it would give users a lot more
control over some of the spam that is ever increasing. Since I've used it
on my old stand by account, I've only had to tell it to leave Email from any
mailing list I've subscribed to alone. Other than that It catches a couple
of hundred Emails a week and I've yet to see one that was worth the effort
to open. I don't trade stock, I don't need viagra and I know the only hot
girl I need to know (and her last name is the same as mine), so it seems to
be a good deal to me.
Perhaps we will see this put to good use some time in the near future to
benefit our users and Imail in general.
Kevin Childers
It's like I've always said, "You can get
more with a kind word and a two by four,
than you can get with just a kind word."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Mauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AOL Update.
> >>>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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