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Re: we aren't the enemy, but it's hard to prove it |
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From: |
Sharon Tucci <sharon @
listhost .
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Thu, 03 May 2001 13:59:23 -0400 |
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To: |
List-Managers @
greatcircle .
com |
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<788820921.988631299@[192.168.1.100]> |
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<B712D4C3.89CC%chuqui@plaidworks.com> |
At 11:48 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
>But wait, what does "huge" mean? How big are you thinking? The biggest
>listserv I know of is TESL-L which has about 12,000 members. If half of
>those were on AOL (unlikely given the specialized educational topic, but
>possible for a similar sized list) then there'd be 6,000 deliveries
>attempted to AOL. 6,000 is POCKET CHANGE for a spammer. A typical
>campaign tries to hit ten times that many or more.
As others have said, 12,000 subscribers is a very small list.
In our case, over 85% of the 11 million subscribers to lists
we host are on lists of 10,000 subscribers or more.
Sharon
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