> > > 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.
The biggest one we host here has over 900,000 members and I host a couple of
dozen that are over 100,000. I have one list that is solely AOL and that
one is over 360,000 subscribers. The AOL issue was a very large thorn in
our side as they were dropping _every single copy_ of that list for almost a
month before we got to the right people inside AOL and straightened this
out.
Rick Rountree
Network Operations
Dundee Internet Services, Inc
http://www.dundee.net/isp/
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