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Subject: Re: AOL
From: garyb @ fxt . com
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 99 08:37:32 -0800
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <199911170900.BAA09323@honor.greatcircle.com>
Reply-to: garyb @ fxt . com

> But, given all that: is there anyone else who is selling ISP
> access who is, by policy, randomly throwing mailing list mail
> on the ground without returning it?

Yes, most of them.  For another example - For one of my own  
domains, I got tired of handling mail to incorrect addresses and  
SPAMs (the domain is one typo away from two other domains), and had  
my hosting provider change the mail handler to silently drop  
anything not to a known address on the floor.  The heck widem!  If  
it's important, it'll get resent.  My staff and I were spending an  
hour a day correcting addresses and forwarding mail to people at  
other domains, and they weren't doing the same thing for me - they  
were dropping it on the floor (I tested).  Yes this is not nice,  
counter to the rules, and rude.  No, I'm not alone.

G



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