recent AOL incident

[put your name here WilliamDerbyshire]

Dear colleagues:
By now 23 subscribers whose subscriptions to SEELANGS were automatically  
deleted
by AOL recently have received a personal and very detailed letter from our  
excellent list 
owner Alex Rudd. I wish to thank Alex for his attention to this matter and  
his devotion to
SEELANGS over the years. He performs a great service to our profession. And 
 please
allow this letter to serve as a warning to others who subscribe to SEELANGS 
 through 
other e-mail services so that they do not cause themselves or others  
problems similar to
the recent incident with AOL.
Briefly, the unfortunate incident with AOL occurred because a  number of 
members were  
sending SEELANGS postings to their spam box on a repeated basis. Please DO  
NOT 
do that! When AOL sees repeated rejections of postings, it assumes that  
the list in question
is sending out undesirable messages (solicitations, porno or the like).  
Those people who have 
been sending to their spam box messages with a subject line of no  personal 
interest caused 23 
SEELANGS subscribers to be unsubscribed by AOL. If a message is of no  
interest,  please 
just push the DELETE button, but do not send the message to spam.
 
I immediately re-subscribed to SEELANGS, and listings are coming  through 
just fine - so far !!
Thank you.
 


William W. Derbyshire
Professor Emeritus - Rutgers  University


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