17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 AwakenToMe@aol.com wrote:
Tell me about it. Im on AOL. WHO CARESSSSSSS if ya get one MAYBE two pieces of mail you take LESS than a second to delete them both with the handy delete key. These people are wasting more time complaining about it than they will ever do actually deleting it.
I would guess that AOL isn't doing it just because of user complaints. AOL has millions of accounts, and spammers try to hit ALL of the addresses. That probably (I am guessing here) doubles (or triples) the load on AOL's already over burdened mail system.
The news reports that I've read also say that, at least in the case of Cyberpromo, 75% of their email database is AOL addresses. Matt