Bill Jepson wrote:

  A*O*L owns Earthlink if you haven't heard. I would be really
surprised if that was the reason the messages were bouncing.

I think you're mistaken, Bill.  Earthlink owns MindSpring, and A*O*L
owns Time-Warner.  But there's no (public) ownership between A*O*L and
Earthlink.  But A*O*L has about 4x as many subscribers as Earthlink, so
it isn't outside the realm of possibility that A*O*L might WANT to own
Earthlink.  :-)

Russell Kent