Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 17:39:36 EST From: "NGLTF" Subject: Administrivia: To Our AOL-based Subscribers This posting is for our listserv subscribers who are members of the America Online community. If you receive your mail from another service provider, we apologize for taking up your bandwidth! ............................................................................ Dear Friends, We have been receiving comments from some of our subscribers regarding the amount of time it takes for you to receive annoucements from our listserv. We have investigated the situation and have discovered the source of the problem, and it exists primarily for our subscribers who use America Online. America Online has told us that mail received by their mail servers that is addressed to multiple members is considered "bulk" email. Individually addressed mail has a higher priority, so listserv email - including our alerts - is set aside and processed at off-peak times. Some of you have experienced delays of up to four days. America Online does not have an estimated time that this problem will be fixed. We have done everything we can on our end to expedite our listserv and to get email out as quickly as possible. We cannot control the timing of email delivery after it leaves our service provider. Its very frustrating for us to be unable to get important information to you in a reliable and timely way. If you are experiencing this with our email, undoubtedly you are experiencing it with other lists where you are subscribed as well. If you wish to pursue this with America Online, we urge you to send a message to AOL screenname "SteveCase." Thank you for subscribing to one of our several listservs. Remember that all the alerts we send out are available immediately on our web site at www.ngltf.org. Bookmark us and stop by often! It is our pleasure to leverage the power of high technology for the benefit of the movement for freedom, justice and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Betsy Gressler, Field Organizer, bgressler@ngltf.org Scott Mindeaux, MIS Director, smindeaux@ngltf.org _________________________________________ This message was issued by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Media Department. If you have any questions regarding this post, please direct them to one of the contacts at the top of this message If you wish to UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, please send an email with "UNSUBSCRIBE PRESSLIST" in the subject and body of your email message to .