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From: Norma Thornton <>
Subject: Re: Blocking of Mail Lists (MAISER)
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 23:14:56 -0700

Anyone~~~what's "spamming"?

John Harrison wrote:
>
> I subscribe to several mail lists for my use in doing genealogical
> research. Most of these list are part of the Univeristy of Indiana.
> They are the "Maiser" mail lists.
>
> Today I received a notice from one of the list owners of the Nutter
> Familiy List () who informed me that the
> MAISER List Manager (Larry Stephens, Indiana University Risk Manager)
> had put out a message to the list owners that Slip.Net is blocking list
> mail to Slip.Net subscribers in a effort to stop spamming.
>
> I contacted Larry Stephens about this. Part of his reply to me is
> below:
>
> > I had a subscriber to two lists who just couldn't get mail for weeks, then
> > he got wind of slip.net blocking mail to prevent spams. I got to checking
> > errors for their rejections and, sure enough, it appears every list
> > message that goes there gets rejected. List mail has extra headers in it
> > (like x-listname) and they must be filtering based on that.
> >
> > As far as I know you can't get list mail if you're subscribed there,
> > although I think they can override it on an individual basis if they want
> > to.
>
> I would like to know if this is indeed true that Slip.Net is blocking
> mail to Maiser List subscribers. Non of the e-mails I have received
> from any of the Maiser Lists have contain Spams.
>
> If this be the case, your blocking any mail I am to receive from a
> Maiser list will seriously impact my research. While I appreciate any
> attempt to block spamming, I must subscribe with an ISP who won't block
> mail coming to me from MAISER.
>
> Your response to this is most appreciated.
>
> Sincerely
>
> John A. Harrison
>
> --
> John Harrison
> San Francisco
>
>
> researching: HARRISON, ANDERSON, STEWART (STEUART),
> McCONNELL, BROWN, TAYLOR, WITTER (WIDDER), BARTON, RANDOLPH,
> CARTER, BARCLAY, BURWELL, HARRIS,
>
> SHERA, SHAFFER (SHAFFER/SCHAEFFER), HUGHES, BURGETT, HEALD (HEYLD),
> KIEHL, KOBESSEN, OGDEN

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