At 4:47 AM -0500 12/2/96, Eric Thomas wrote:
>> it occurs to me that the counter to some of our complaints about
>>one message per receipient is that many lists have little aggregation by
>>domain or host,
>
>That's not true. There is massive aggregation to domains like AOL.COM,
>which also account for a large fraction of the user base of most mailing
>lists.
When someone says "Many X do Y", a response of "That's not true,
because there is one X that clearly doesn't do Y" is simply non-responsive.
It entirely misses the point of the original assertion.
To give a specific example, from my original statement:
Enterprise-wide network mailing lists are often entirely internal to the
enterprise and may well show NONE of the aggregation that we have been
discussing.
d/
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