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Subject: Re: AOL Terms -- Revealed
From: J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:08:05 -0700
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Message from Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org> of "Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:54:27 BST." <20010429165427.A21496@firedrake.org>
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 16:54:27 +0100 
Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
>> At that point, your mail starts vanishing (no bounces, no error,
>> just no delivery).

> At that point, I lose all sympathy with them. Bounce the message,
> fine. 550, no problem. Their network, their anti-spam policy. But
> silent dropping is just _wrong_.

The problem, as Chuq so accurately puts it, is that they are the
800lb gorilla.  I may not agree with them, or <pick your govt or
political system> either, but in both cases I'm the one who has to
adapt.

-- 
J C Lawrence                                       claw@kanga.nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
--=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--



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