bulk email

Mon Apr 22 15:10:35 UTC 2002

Unless the network is lying to me again, James Cronin said: 

> I'm working on a bulk (opt in!) email delivery system at the moment,
> and over the years I've heard a number of possibly apocryphal
> stories about people requiring contracts with large email suppliers
> (Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, MSN etc..) in order to be able to guarantee
> delivery and lower the risk of email that's been requested by an
> end user being mistakenly blackholed or treated as spam by their
> ISP (or webmail provider).
> 
> Has anyone ever actually come across such a contract in real life
> or are they just urban myths?

The one with AOL is real.  http://www.mailinglists.org/aol

AlanC
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