Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program

[David Gibbs]

Larry Stone wrote:
> Nothing I do provides me any direct benefit so I'm sure as heck not paying
> for assured delivery. 

Stated like that (and I don't disagree in the slightest), AOL's new
program could be construed as extortion: "Pay us money, or your mail
won't be delivered."

david


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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program

[Larry Stone]

On 2/3/06 7:45 PM, David Gibbs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Brad Knowles wrote:
>> Just saw this article at :
>> 
>> AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program
> 
>> Basically, unless you want to pay GoodMail to certify everything
>> sent by your list, you just won't get through to AOL recipients.  So,
>> I guess it's time to unsubscribe all AOL users.
> 
> I'm just going to tell my AOL subscribers to complain to AOL that they
> aren't getting the mail they are expecting.

I quite agree. It's not my problem, it's the problem of the AOL user who
solicited mail from me and is not getting it.

Nothing I do provides me any direct benefit so I'm sure as heck not paying
for assured delivery. It all supports activities in which I'm a volunteer.
At best they lose a "fun" message. At worst, one of the soccer referees I
assign loses out on an assignment (I'm a volunteer but they get paid) -
maybe when they realize that lack of reliable mail delivery is costing them
money, they'll change.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program

[David Gibbs]

Brad Knowles wrote:
>   Just saw this article at 
> :
> 
>   AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program

>   Basically, unless you want to pay GoodMail to certify everything 
> sent by your list, you just won't get through to AOL recipients.  So, 
> I guess it's time to unsubscribe all AOL users.

I'm just going to tell my AOL subscribers to complain to AOL that they
aren't getting the mail they are expecting.

I figure there will be two possible outcomes ... a) AOL will change
their policy because of the number of complaints, or b) the AOL
subscribers will switch to a real email provider and the problem will go
away (along with, one hopes, AOL itself).

david

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