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

[Sharon Tucci]

At 11:48 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
>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.  If half of 
>those were on AOL (unlikely given the specialized educational topic, but 
>possible for a similar sized list) then there'd be 6,000 deliveries 
>attempted to AOL.  6,000 is POCKET CHANGE for a spammer.  A typical 
>campaign tries to hit ten times that many or more.

As others have said, 12,000 subscribers is a very small list.
In our case, over 85% of the 11 million subscribers to lists
we host are on lists of 10,000 subscribers or more. 

Sharon