[65119] in Cypherpunks
Re: Court challenge to AOL junk-mail blocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Lyle)
Tue Sep 10 09:01:34 1996
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:46:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Lyle <matt@nova.org>
To: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Cc: AwakenToMe@aol.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960909113515.1028C-100000@smoke.suba.com>
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:
> > Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces
> > of mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy
> > delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they
> > will ever do actually deleting it.
>
> I would guess that AOL isn't doing it just because of user complaints.
> AOL has millions of accounts, and spammers try to hit ALL of the addresses.
> That probably (I am guessing here) doubles (or triples) the load on AOL's
> already over burdened mail system.
The news reports that I've read also say that, at least in the case of
Cyberpromo, 75% of their email database is AOL addresses.
Matt
