[91433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Mail Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Thu Jul 27 11:52:30 2006
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:51:57 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9f2790160607270825v18463358w6e7b7abcfd13fa20@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Allen Parker wrote:
I really
> wish more people would stand up to aol and explain to them that their
> spam filtering stuff is ineffective as well as annoying.
I for one really wish the service providers of the world had been
willing to deal with the spam problem when it first arose.
That some are now beginning to as AOL is is heartening, but it is now
too little, too late.
email as a useful tool is dead. Get used to it.
For the future of email, look at the history of Citizens Band Radio.
And ponder the significance of Gresham's Law here.
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