I'm not totally sure but I believe AOL has a larger 'family' based business than commercial. With this thinking I would further believe that families would rather their ISP do 'what ever it takes' to keep the porn out of there children's hands, spam, and viruses out of there home computers.
I believe once the world's top most knowledgeable email guru's finally stop whining about such a trivial issue, and except the fact that "Large" companies with "Large" amounts of "Money" is what truly sets the standards, then the world will continue to rotate on its' axis. Isn't it time to put this tread to rest? - although I did like the previous 'shoe' analogy post, <gr> ~Rick > I wonder how many would change regardless if it were openly disclosed what > the read side effects of this type of spam blocking were (ie, you can't > communicate with any legit business that is using a DSL line for the > company). Previous challenge/response attempts (with probably > fewer blocked > legit emails) were met with howls of outrage and abandoned (at the ISP > level). > > And, of course, AOL has so many other options that are not so draconian. > Example: add a header to all mail from a DSL server and give EACH user a > setting they could click to decide to block or quarantine such email for > review (with their own whitelist/address book to override such > blocking) is > only one such easy solution. Yes they have to process all that nasty mail > (and risk virus infection approximately 5 milliseconds sooner from those > sloppy DSL users), but the end effect to their users in spam > control is the > same or better with a better fp ratio (or at least not their > doing blocking > legit msgs). > > > -----Original Message----- > > From:John Tolmachoff > > > 30million love us. :) You better run and tell everyone that > they hate us > > so > > > they will know better and not use our service. > > > > It would be interesting to see exactly how many of that 30 million would > > drop AOL in a heart beat if it wasn't for the fact that they > have so much > > tied to that e-mail address. > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
