[47009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bulk email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Clegg)
Mon Apr 22 11:11:11 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:10:35 -0400
From: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com>
To: James Cronin <james@unfortu.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Unless the network is lying to me again, James Cronin said:=20
> I'm working on a bulk (opt in!) email delivery system at the moment,
> and over the years I've heard a number of possibly apocryphal
> stories about people requiring contracts with large email suppliers
> (Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, MSN etc..) in order to be able to guarantee
> delivery and lower the risk of email that's been requested by an
> end user being mistakenly blackholed or treated as spam by their
> ISP (or webmail provider).
>=20
> Has anyone ever actually come across such a contract in real life
> or are they just urban myths?
The one with AOL is real. http://www.mailinglists.org/aol
AlanC
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