NYCkayaker Administrivia: incorrect spam reports by members of this list to AOL

[Rich Kulawiec]

(If you're not an AOL user, this doesn't apply to you.)

AOL's user interface provides a control where users can report a message
as spam.  Someone on this list has hit that button on messages sent through
this list 3 times in the last 4 days.

Software at AOL tallies those clicks and, depending on how many there are,
and on some other factors, may decide to block mail from the server which
transmitted those messages.

If that happens, it means that everyone on this mailing list at AOL will
no longer be able to receive traffic from it.  Moreover, it means that
anyone at AOL on *any* rockandwater.net-hosted list won't be able to
receive traffic from it.  And beyond that, it means that anyone at AOL
won't be able to receive *any* traffic from rockandwater.net, list or not.
And finally, it means that I'll have to get involved and convince the
folks at AOL to manually remove the block -- and I'll have to ask
them to revoke the account of the customer responsible for filing
falsified spam reports.

So understand that pushing that button, on non-spam messages, has
repercussions, none of which are good for anyone.

Either this is being done accidentally -- in which case, *please* be
more careful because that button is not a toy -- or it's being done
deliberately by someone who was energetic enough to sign up for the
list, but too lazy to unsubscribe.  I don't know (my steam-powered
blinky-light mind-reading gizmo is busted this week); I just want
it to stop.

---Rsk