On Friday 24 February 2006 20:11, jdow wrote: >From: "jp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:48:09PM -0500, JamesDR wrote: >>> Vivek Khera wrote: >>> >On Feb 23, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Mike Jackson wrote: >>> >>So, I suppose the question is: How do you deal with getting >>> >> forwarded mail through to AOL without being branded as a >>> >> spammer? >>> > >>> >You stop forwarding email to AOL... really. >>> > >>> >Other option is to crank up the SA pickiness and tell the >>> > customers they may lose some email. >>> > >>> >You cannot win this fight with AOL. >>> >>> 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... >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > >{^_^}
Unforch Joanne, thats so high they'll be out of sight and forgotten. Humm, Oh wait, now that you mention it, maybe that is the best idea, but someone should make sure there is a footnote in the internets history about them for historical accuracy... :) I just got another coaster in the mail today. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
