From: "jp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:48:09PM -0500, JamesDR wrote:
Vivek Khera wrote:
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>On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Mike Jackson wrote:
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>>So, I suppose the question is: How do you deal with getting forwarded
>>mail through to AOL without being branded as a spammer?
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>You stop forwarding email to AOL... really.
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>Other option is to crank up the SA pickiness and tell the customers they
>may lose some email.
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>You cannot win this fight with AOL.
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Forward no mail to any ISP....
I setup Web-Mail just for this reason. If they want to access their mail
from home, http://www.... is always open for biz :-D
We had a customer of ours request engineering, hit the spam button
instead of the delete button, got the TOS. Well they called up quite mad
when he didn't get our mail in a timely manor... Faxed the TOS report to
him and he shut his mouth quickly. In this instance, he paid us a $1000
deposit to get engineering, which he promptly reported as spam (and I
assume the aohel software removes it from the MUA.) So he got to come
here and pick it up instead.
I say let AOL make people pay to send 'spam', spammers make a ton of
money of of spam, what's .25cent to them per message...
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Thanks,
James
We get the TOS reports too. AOL is threatening to block us even still
since we generate 0.65% "junk mail". Almost every TOS report I get is an
ignorant AOL customer like yours who reports everything as spam.
Mailings they signed up for from the humane society get reported as spam
by AOL members. Email correspondance and photos from relatives get
reported as spam by AOL members. The typical subscribers are a really
stupid bunch and haven't smartened up at all the past ten years.
I think the right response to AOL on this new initiative is a universal
AOL blacklist. If they blacklist you then you blacklist them in return.
If anybody pays their extortion to deliver email their members have
requested be forwarded to their system they are feeding the breakup of
the Internet. They are feeding the carrier demands of bribes from Google,
CNN, or FoxNews to give their products priority routing at the expense of
other sites. They are feeding, in otherwords, the death of blogs. And if
there is any issue more tied up with freedom of political speech issues
within the US I cannot think of it.
Of course, if AOL gets away with this then they are not a common carrier
anymore. So they become responsible for their content. Sue them for any
bad content and throw their charges in their face as evidence that they
are not a carrier, they are a content service. Nail their sorry backsides
to the nearest Sequoia half way up.
{^_^}
