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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.

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More at http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002010701t.htm .

Eszter

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