A-Hole Hell!

[GuyJean]

Man, I'm getting f*cking email cock-blocked by my hosting company for supposedly sending spam!

Some asshole, with an AOL account, signed up for the TDV Updater; The TokyoDV newsletter I send out maybe twice a month to notify people of updates. People voluntarily sign up with my form, and I DO NOT sell or disseminate their email. It's a very simple email with no graphics or HTML..

This is my hosts notice:

We received an AOL user complaint regarding an email with the following subject: "TDV Updater 6/27/04." This led to the disabling of email.


We had received AOL complaints of spam in the past regarding email with the following subjects:
"TDV Updater 5/5/04"
"TDV Updater 5/16/04"
"TDV Updater 4/4/04"
"TDV Updater 4/18/04"

Warning emails were sent on 2004-04-19 and 2004-05-17. In those emails were the suggestions regarding AOL.

I understand that you may provide an opt-in email service, but as we hold onto a zero-tolerance policy towards spam, we must address every complaint that is made.

AOL provides an easy method for their users to mark email as spam, whether it be spam or not. I suggest that you remove all AOL emails from your mailing list, and prohibit future AOL emails from joining to resolve this situation.

Since I myself get over a f*cking thousand spams a day, I probably deleted my hosts 'warning'.. Some AOL monkey moved my 'Updater' into their spam folder, so now I'm f*cked!

How can 5 text-only emails in 3 months be considered spam!?

Fuck AOL! I hope they burn in A-Hole Hell!

Be warned: Do not send email to AOL accounts.

GJ

[Andocrates]

Yea that sucks, it's the whole "throw the baby out with the bathwater." thing. I gave up on mailing lists a few years back after getting threatened by my server host.

[GuyJean]

I gave up on mailing lists a few years back after getting threatened by my server host.

I'll probably do the same thing , once, or if, I get my email back..

GJ

[Cortana]

Sadly net users everwhere are full of the stupid.

AOL isn't bad people though. I worked in the AOL mail group for 5 years. If you need help getting hold of the right people to get unblocked, let me know. I can point you to the right people.

Check out http://postmaster.info.aol.com

send me a mail if you need a hand with it.


[email]myforumsusername@%gmail.com[/email] (of course, replace the username and get rid of the % =)

[AssKissinger]

AOL isn't bad people though.

Unless you dislike corporate cocksuckers who intentionally plague people's computer with shitty and extremely difficult to remove fuck-up your hard drive software.

[GuyJean]

AOL isn't bad people though. I worked in the AOL mail group for 5 years. If you need help getting hold of the right people to get unblocked, let me know. I can point you to the right people.

Thanks for the offer. My email is back now.. I just have to promise never to send mail to an AOL account.

This deal with AOL threatening to blacklist hosting companies seems VERY flawed. In my case, I sent 5 emails over 3 months to an email address that was submitted to me. I didn't search for addresses or pay for them. These people submitted their own email to me.

And who questions the people declaring email as spam? No one. From my understanding, all AOLers have to do is check a box to mark it as spam, and it's moved to a spam folder. No one checks to verify if the mail is actually spam. AOL then sends a threatening letter the host company of the, (not accused mind you), the unproven guilty. What kind of policy is this?

So AOLers miss out because no one, within reason, would ever send email to an AOL account again, and people sending honest email get blacklisted. Do true spammers use real email addresses anyway? Don't they forge the address? What happens then?

Evidence shows AOL is more a joke than an honest business, IMO. Lest we forget about this story:
AOL Worker Arrested in Alleged Spam Scheme
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5245464.html

U.S. investigators said on Wednesday they had arrested an America Online employee for allegedly stealing the Internet provider's customer list and selling it to a purveyor of spam e-mail.

Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., has been charged with stealing a list of 92 million AOL customer screen names and selling them to Internet marketer Sean Dunaway of Las Vegas, said David Kelley, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Dunaway, who also has been arrested, used the list to promote his online gambling operation and sold the list to other spammers for $52,000, Kelley said.

I bet he still has his email..

GJ