January 18, 2002

Story of Harvard's Missing E-Mail Notices Is Overblown, Internet Provider Says

When Harvard University used e-mail last month to tell more than 6,000 applicants whether they had won early decision, dozens of the electronic messages failed to be delivered, reportedly because applicants' Internet service providers misidentified the messages as junk mail.

But America Online, the Internet service provider that rejected most of the messages, says that its mail-filtering software isn't to blame and that none of the university's messages were considered

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