On 4/25/14, 9:04 AM, Steven Saner wrote: > On 04/25/2014 10:59 AM, Royce Williams wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Shrdlu <shr...@deaddrop.org> wrote: >>> On 4/25/2014 8:00 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Grant Ridder<shortdudey...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thought i would throw this out there. >>> >>>> Curious I unleashed grep on a couple of mailing lists I operate. >>> >>>> I turned up one AOL address. >>> >>>> I'm not saying my data is representative of the Internet, but I >>>> remember a time when they were 50% of the addresses on my mailing >>>> lists. >>> >>> I doubt the largest list I manage is representative of anything beyond >>> an insane asylum, but out of 900-950, there are SIX of those laying >>> around. Those are all addresses receiving email (I looked at the logs, >>> just to verify). You just never know. >> >> Keep in mind that mailing list membership is heavily dependent on >> demographics of their common interest. Many mailing lists that folks >> on this list run themselves are likely to be technical in nature, and >> therefore less likely to have @aol.com address. >> >> On the other hand, I belong to a club for people who collect license >> plates. They tend to be older. 11% (320 of them) are active AOL >> users. >> >> Royce > > > We run several mailing lists for customers. We frequently get feedback > reports from AOL saying that the AOL user has flagged the message as > spam. So, we remove said user from the list. They then complain that > they have been removed and swear that they didn't do it. Anyone have a > handle on what this is about?
It's a user interface problem. marked messages disappear. aol user employees this in lieu of mailbox filtering. it could have been fixed a decade ago. > Steve >
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