Are we looking for solutions, or just ranting? (was Re: Comcast and SORBS)

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:17:48AM +0000, John Chambers wrote:
> Robert L Krawitz writes:
> | You're not a customer of AOL, so there's very little business reason
> | for AOL to listen to you.  If you have a problem with AOL's practice
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> 
> Funny story: Last Spring, when AOL started blocking  all  email  from
> rcn.com  addresses,  we  had RCN service, and my wife Shelley was the
.......
> Eventually, I hear, AOL put RCN's server back on the good-guys  list.
> But  for  this  tennis team, it was too late.  They had discussed the
> issue (and looked at the evidence that I provided them ;-).  They all
> decided  to  switch to other email suppliers.  So AOL lost a bunch of
> customers.  As I understand it, this wasn't an isolated case.
.....

To the tune of 2 million customers: 
http://www.theregister.com/2004/11/03/aol_q3_04/

"AOL lost two million customers in the US over the last year. At the end
of September AOL had 22.7m US users, a fall of 646,000 on the previous
quarter and down two million a year ago."

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