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IP: Let you decide where the truth is -- AOL and Harvard
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:08:34 -0500
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:06:02 -0500 (EST) From: Eszter Hargittai <eszter () phoenix Princeton EDU> To: dave () farber net Admissions Messages Bounce Back to Harvard, but AOL Says Spam Filters Aren't to Blame By JEFFREY R. YOUNG When Harvard University used e-mail last month to tell more than 6,000 applicants whether they had won early admission, dozens of the electronic messages bounced back, reportedly because applicants' Internet-service providers misidentified the messages as junk mail. But America Online, the Internet-service provider that rejected most of the messages, says that its mail-filtering software isn't to blame and that none of the university's messages were considered spam. <snip> More at http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002010701t.htm . Eszter --- Eszter's List: http://www.eszter.com/elist
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