Re: Re[4]: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:19:59 EST, Larry Seltzer said:
> Goodmail is not meant for you. It's meant for bulk mailers. And in any
> event, I don't know how much trouble it is to implement the system since I
> haven't tried it myself. You'd probably do better to fix whatever's wrong
> with your message that's causing AOL to block it :)

The major reason a lot of uproar started was because there are a lot of sites
that are *not* strictly bulk mailers, but just due to sheer size have a high
message rate to aol.com.  Our site participates in the current AOL whitelist
scheme, and we get the feedback loop stuff they send.

You know what?  Our single biggest problem is people who go to the effort of
subscribing to a mailing list (and we're talking confirmed opt-in here), and
then they plonk the 'spam' button when they get mail from the list.

On Tuesday, we had 2,305 outbound connections to AOL, of which only 175 had
more than one RCPT TO: on it.  Even at a quarter penny per, that's still almost
$200/mo in protection money we'd have to pay GoodMail...

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