On 12/17/04 12:24 PM, "Jim Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:

>>  Perhaps list vendors have spam filters that are too
>> agressive, perhaps they just pick and choose their customers, I don't
>> know.
>>
>>
> Be sure their ISP is not blocking yours. Right now, I can't send to
> anyone with an AOL address because somebody broke into the knology
> server and spammed a bunch of AOLers. So, until the two companies kiss
> and make up, I can't send to them and who knows who else.
>
> Jim
>
>
What I have found is that many times recently it is not the individual that
has the over aggressive filters but their service.  As in AOL and  a few
others.  I specifically chose my domain hosting from a place that
specifically left all filtering up to me.  Turns out there was a side
advantage to this.  Very large commercial account space at low price.  When
a lot of my side income is through ebay and some others I need reliable mail
service.  However there have been many times I have tried to respond to
queries to aol members and have gotten mail bounced.  So often in fact that
I was tempted to put a bouncer on aol addresses except that would get
bounced as well.  Aol makes it impossible for you to find out why the
bounce.
jimt