At 5:53 PM -0800 1/31/98, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> Third, blocks by people who want to receive replies or subscriptions are
> almost never placed against the list or the list's site but usually against
> the entire Internet outside AOL, as Adam acknowledged:
How I handle this -- without huge hassles on my part.
I forward the bounced mail to postmaster@aol.com, and ask them to tell
the user I can't respond to a blocked account. The mail seems to get
through. And if it gets to be a big enough hassle or resource drain on
the AOL postmasters, maybe they'll fix it.
Is there some reason why this is the wrong thing to do? Seems like
people are going through hoops when going to the site admin directly
can deal with it.
I used to see this a fair amount. Now, they're pretty rare. AOL folks
still block my lists instead of unsubscribe (which is fine by me), but
the complaints about lost mail don't happen very much, not like when
the feature was just released.
I've suggested to AOL not to allow mail to be sent to addresses that
are blocked. If you think about it, *that* is simply setting up their
system to be the source of serious abuse mail by a real twit. So far,
they don't seem to agree with me....
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Chuq Von Rospach (chuq@apple.com) Apple IS&T Mail List Gnome
<http://www.solutions.apple.com/ListAdmin/>
Plaidworks Consulting (chuqui@plaidworks.com) <http://www.plaidworks.com/>
(<http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/> +-+ The home for Hockey on the net)
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