Re: we aren't the enemy, but it's hard to prove it

[John R Levine]

> > 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, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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