If you think about the inventives of the entities in question, it's
really not that surprising. Yahoo and AOL will want to force people
to use their web-based forums, ...
In this case, I find ineptness as least as plausible as malice:
http://jl.ly/Email/aoldmarc.html
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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