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Subject: Re: being a good citizen
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+listmanagers @ luomat . peak . org>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 98 12:39:10 -0500
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <19980118134532.26338@amulation.co.uk>
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> ...current customers, so we can make a pretty good prediction of the
> volume to be going to larger ISPs. (Not surprisingly, AOL is by far
> the largest single ISP.)

AOL has a restriction about the *number* of messages which can be waiting  
for someone. I do not know if they limit the size of their mailbox.  I do  
know that places like Earthlink do.

Something that CNet does which you might want to consider is they send out a  
"blurbmail" which has overviews of several articles, and inline URLs to the  
full text.  You might find it works smoother for you if you can send several  
5k messages pointing to 70k (or however) worth of information.

You run less chance of running into quotas, and will eat a lot less bandwidth.

Obviously, just a suggestion which is not free of its own problems.

TjL




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