> > That's not a safe assumption, Tom. There are huge, legitimate mailing
> > lists as well.
>
> 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.
That's what's known these days as a small list. There are many legitimate
lists with hundreds of thousands of addresses. Infobeat's daily news
summary is reputed to have over a million.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
Follow-Ups:
References:
|
|
