Apparently, AOL has decided once again that the Digest is spam, and is blocking delivery of the Digest to AOL addresses, and possibly Netscape addresses as well. This sort of thing happens frequently (one might suggest too frequently…), but it’s usually transient in nature. This is frequently caused by a spammer using the Digest address as a forged From: header field in a spam run, but usually I know this is happening because of all the backscatter spam AOL sends (that is, returning the mail to the From: address instead of rejecting during the SMTP transaction), and I haven’t seen any indication of this lately.

AOL users, don’t panic, the Digest will probably be back in a day or so. But until they lift the block, there is nothing I can do to get the issues delivered. If you don’t receive an issue in a few days, contact me via email or using that “Contact the Webmaster” link over on the sidebar.