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

[Rick Rountree]

> > > 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/