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

[Adam Bailey]

On 4/30/01 10:48 AM, Tom Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
>--On Monday, April 30, 2001 8:37 AM -0700 Chuq Von Rospach 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 4/30/01 8:24 AM, "Tom Neff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> From an ISP standpoint, what really matters about spam is the number of
>>> recipients.  The really noticeable difference between a legitimate
>>> mailing list and a spam campaign is that the latter is HUGE.
>>
>> 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.

[EMAIL PROTECTED], the second-largest public LISTSERV list 
in existence, has 2,139,878 subscribers. I would assume by its name and 
description that virtually all of them are on AOL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
and [EMAIL PROTECTED] both have primarily AOL audiences and have 
443,904 and 289,032 subscribers, respectively.

I'm not sure what my point is.


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