[EL] Listserv housekeeping: AOL email addresses and listserv messages

[Rick Hasen]

List members,

I won’t bore you with the technical details, but it appears that listserv messages sent by people (like Jim yesterday) who use an aol.com email address will be blocked by some email systems as spam.  A listserv member with an aol.com address can deal with this by changing his or her listserv subscription to a non aol.com email address.  Some people won’t want to do that, and for those people, Dan or I will endeavor to forward those messages to the list (meaning some people will receive the message twice).  The only alternative to this procedure is changing the email formatting for all messages to remove information from the “from” line about who is sending the message. This would give users less information about what is coming in, and make the default reply to a listserv message a reply which goes to the entire list.  Dan and I don’t want to make that change.

Thanks for your understanding about the occasional times you may receive duplicate messages from listserv users sending messages using an aol.com email address.

Rick



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