[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Jim Ray]

Aol blows grits.  Anyone that wants a real internet connection should
boycott aol.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: H.Wade Minter [mailto:minter at lunenburg.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:58 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] AOL's new email policy
> 
> 
> On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Jason White wrote:
> > One benefit of *not* using your ISP is that you have more control
over
> > each message, and you will know if the message made it to its
> > destination, because you will be communicating directly with the
SMTP
> > server on the other end.
> 
> ...which, of course, you have to weigh against the (pretty
significant)
> odds of someone using a RBL that blocks all "dialup" address space,
> rendering your SMTP transaction null and void.