-----Original Message----- From: Karen Isaacson <karen@rand.org> To: listowners@rootsweb.com <listowners@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 1997 9:33 PM Subject: AOL bounces, slow deliveries, etc. >I'm getting a lot of complaints on some of my lists from people with AOL >addresses. They've unsubscribed, but are still getting messages. Many of >them are (not to put too fine a point on it) quite angry. > >The problem is that although they have indeed successfully unsubscribed, >AOL is at least ten days behind, maybe worse, on delivering at least some >mailing list messages. So username@aol.com unsubscribes, but receives >messages for ten or more days later. Ouch. > >In case you were wondering if there were anything we can do, there isn't, >really. I just received a bounce of a message that passed through >RootsWeb at 7:30PM on November 13th. AOL accepted it for delivery at >their relay30.mail.aol.com hub shortly after 10PM that night. (Three hours >isn't great -- we hand off most mail to other sites within minutes. But >then again, 7:30PM would be one of their busiest times.) > >So, at 10:30PM on November 13th, that message showed up in the >subscriber's mailbox, right? Wrong. It sat on relay30.mail.aol.com until >about an hour ago (6:30PM on November 26th), when delivery was at last >attempted to the user on AOL. Unfortunately, the user's mailbox was full, >so after letting the message stagnate for 13 days on one of their hubs, >AOL sent the message back to me. I suspect other 13 day old messages were >just successfully delivered, some to people who are still on that mailing >list, but others to people who left the mailing list almost two weeks ago. > >Another side effect of this is that you'll be getting bounces from bad >addresses that you (or SmartList) removed from your lists almost two weeks >ago. > >Let's do the time warp again? > >Karen > > ==== SASSER Mailing List ==== =======SASSER Discussion List====== Questions or comments about the list: dlsasser@email.msn.com