Yeah anything sent from Hyperreal.org will not go into my GMail account..
:( So i have my hotmail account just for the gabber and idm list.
Rich
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From: "chthonic" <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Dead due to sp*m
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> From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:33:33 -0400
>
> >I think its because most mailing lists are dead.
> >
> >This is purely theory, but i think people who are new
> >to the internet don't sign up to discussion email lists as
> >much or nearly at all because there are so many other
> >avenues to gain information or communicate -
> >chat, message boards, livejournal/blogs, slsk etc.
>
> there's another reason, related to this: spam. it's increased
> tenfold in the past few years. there's now a lot of server-level filters
> and domain name blocks going on. a list i was on for 5 years
> gave up mostly because so many emails were being bounced by
> other providers. if an ISP sees that your domain is sending 700
> emails or more a day, it's going to think you're spamming. often
> it's impossible to contact or reason with the people in charge of
> the blocking (such as AOL).
>
> yahoo groups gets by because they're yahoo. but i'm amazed
> hyperreal's lists are still alive at all. bravo for holding the fort.
>
>
> d.
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