On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:20:57AM -0500, Scott G. Hall wrote:
> Yea, and did you notice that those are all companies owned by AOL?  They
> bought CompuServ in the late '90s, and Earthlink a year ago last summer
> (shortly after Earthlink bought Mindspring -- another one to add to your
> list).  I used to be a Mindspring customer and jumped ship when AOL made
> worse the already deteriorating service from Earthlink.

I did notice that.  Only AOL owned companies are blocking me right now.

> I am now on BellSouth, and I think they also emailed me a similar policy
> bulletin last December that they were going to start doing this.  I am
> just starting to set my own up, but I helped a friend set up his, and he
> has it set to attempt a direct mailing, watch for the rejection, and then
> use the defined "smarter host" of his ISP.  This way there is no list to
> maintain, but some procmail scripting to catch rejections for resending.

That's a great idea.  I'd love to know how you did it when you get
it setup.

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Ken Wahl  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.kenwahl.org

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