a friend passed this to me today. I thought some of you might find it interesting..... <http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000053.html#000053> -- Chuq Von...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Oct 24, 2002 5:37 am
12650
... userxxxxxx@... and xxxxxxx@... are both subscribed to this list. AOL gives users the ability to block email from specified addresses ...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Oct 25, 2002 4:20 pm
12651
they've done that for a while, I believe. I treat them as bounces. If they only block SOME people on the list, only SOME messages bounce, but the effect is the...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Oct 25, 2002 4:37 pm
12652
... They do it to us all the time. My response is to set the blocker to nomail and tell (usually) her that she's causing us to get failed mail notices and so...
Janet Detter Margul
janet@...
Oct 25, 2002 4:38 pm
12653
... Yes. That is the only reasonable option for AoL. ... Yes, it is a problem. I advise and then remove list members who do this. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg...
Jeffrey Goldberg
jeffrey@...
Oct 25, 2002 4:52 pm
12654
... Sigh. The problem is that the AOL subscriber is a good member on this list so I don't want to do that. Does anyone know if AOL allows whitelisting AND...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Oct 25, 2002 5:55 pm
12655
Many AOL users dont understand the impact of the configuration changes they may to thier account. Many user block all mail from outside the aol system due to...
Tom Keyser
tkeyser@...
Oct 25, 2002 6:04 pm
12656
... of course. ... nope. that's not an option. If you block an address, you block an address. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui@... --...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Oct 25, 2002 6:13 pm
12657
... On AOL you can block ALL, by domain, or by address accept ONLY, by domain, or by address...
Tom Keyser
tkeyser@...
Oct 25, 2002 6:40 pm
12658
... Why? Why does the list-owner have to know who's blocking who? Most subscribers don't read all their list mail anyway, and this blocking info has little or...
Thomas Gramstad
thomas@...
Oct 25, 2002 7:57 pm
12659
... JD> Does anyone know if AOL allows whitelisting AND blacklisting, and if the JD> whitelist takes precedence? IOW, if she whitelists the list address, will...
Vivek Khera
khera@...
Oct 25, 2002 8:31 pm
12660
... No. The sender is not xxxxxxx@..., the sender is the list. The bounce is sent to the list because that is the sender. The mail is not from...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 25, 2002 9:34 pm
12661
... Then why send filter-bounces at all? Why can't the filtering or user-initiated blocking happen quietly? Thomas Gramstad thomas@......
Thomas Gramstad
thomas@...
Oct 25, 2002 10:09 pm
12662
... AOL's Mail Controls are explained in detail, with screen shot, at <http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/#mail_controls>. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago,...
Adam Bailey
adamb@...
Oct 26, 2002 1:47 am
12663
... if the ... Thanks Adam! BTW, is anyone else getting obscene private replies to their posts to this list? I've received 2 content free replies from the...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Oct 26, 2002 2:48 am
12664
... Not by successful follow-up posts, obviously, since at least one of us (myself) has definitely not seen them; but I'm also the opposite of expert on the...
Beartooth
karhunhammas@...
Oct 26, 2002 3:28 am
12665
... Ditto! Closer to aol than anything I'd yet seen, and of great clinical interest .... -- RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com> [T]he...
Beartooth
karhunhammas@...
Oct 26, 2002 3:55 am
12666
... If it were a privately composed piece of mail that you sent to someone, you might well want to know whether or not it actually got through. It is right to...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 26, 2002 7:03 am
12667
... I think the question is whether this should be considered a bounce (and so go to the envelope sender) or be considered an autoresponse (and so go to the...
Jeffrey Goldberg
jeffrey@...
Oct 26, 2002 12:50 pm
12668
... What's really odd about this is that the AOL filters are infamous for swallowing email without a trace. Often AOL users who use whitelists bid on...
JC Dill
inet-list@...
Oct 26, 2002 5:02 pm
12669
... It is never right to send any autoresponse regarding the message delivery status to anything other than the RFC821 sender (or the contents of the Sender:...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 26, 2002 11:26 pm
12670
... Yikes! I know this (or should know this). I discuss that in my "bad bounce" rant http://www.goldmark.org/email/badbounce.html I think I need to initiate...
Jeffrey Goldberg
jeffrey@...
Oct 27, 2002 3:53 pm
12671
... No, don't, any of you who carry this list. It's good for those of us who lurk (or mostly lurk) to see role models being human, goofing, and remaining...
Beartooth
karhunhammas@...
Oct 27, 2002 4:39 pm
12672
Beartooth wrote, ... Tooth, you didn't consider that we changed the clocks back today in North America and many on this list have an extra hour to kill. ...
David W. Tamkin
dattier@...
Oct 27, 2002 5:36 pm
12673
... Ah, thanks! there is a reason for my existence, then. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui@... -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ No!...
Chuq Von Rospach
chuqui@...
Oct 27, 2002 7:03 pm
12674
... Don't forget the two people who will write you with different degrees of civility trying to figure out how to get off the list. -- Unsubscribing from a...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 27, 2002 9:00 pm
12675
... Both must still be sleeping off the delight of getting off the achronic abomination and getting back onto God's Time -- haven't peeped yet. One of the...
Beartooth
karhunhammas@...
Oct 27, 2002 9:18 pm
12676
... As opposed to some of us who are not role models, but who are, none the less, devastated. :-) -- Take The Boulder Pledge Today "Under no circumstances...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 28, 2002 3:22 am
12677
I just helped someone get off of this list. ... [elided] ... Well, I told him that I was not the right person to ask, and after significant hesitation, I...
Nick Simicich
njs@...
Oct 28, 2002 3:28 am
12678
Hi All, We are a small outfit at present having a assignment for setting up a list server and we are in the process of evaluating couple of them It will be...
