A better way for AOL to set things up would be that if their
subscribers didn't want to receive mail from a list or server then
they also could not send email to the list or server.
I know I just got through a long drawn out battle with AOL over their
listing my lists to their subscribers. I wanted my lists taken off
their directory. They gave me a song and dance how I would benefit
from having their members.
I carefully and patiently explained to them that I did not want
people who were not smart enough to figure out how to subscribe or
unsubscribe from a list. If they didn't have those basics down then
they were not welcomed.
Juno, never gives me any problems but AOL is a constant source of
problems. Their people subscribe and then immediately start posting
messages to the list, "GET ME OFF THIS DAMN LIST!" etc..
I have signoff instructions at the bottom of each posting, however,
most of them can not follow the instructions. They insist upon doing
it their way and that the server should just "know" what they want.
Then there's the people who just change email address and abandon
their old ones. I could go on, but you get the drift.
At the moment, I'm trying to figure out how to refuse any and all
email from AOL. That should also eliminate about 99% of the spams we
receive.
Leonard
On 22 Jan 97 ,David W. Tamkin insightfully wrote:
> Maybe AOL Mail Controls should forbid *sending* any message whose responses
> -- assuming they will come From: the addressee with "Re: Subject" as the
> subject -- will be rejected. That wouldn't stop miscreants from quickly
> changing their settings before a reply arrives, but it would stop those who
> do it by mistake. (Methinks I should carbon Mr. O'Donnell.)
>
> David Tamkin
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