[obol] AOL Spam Reports

[DON SHARON HALLER]

Jim

I appreciate your efforts.  Do not give up.

Two and a half thoughts.

Some accounts other than AOL have a "we know best" obsession that starts dumping deletes from the same address into the junk files after awhile.  Guess what they do after they start getting a lot of messages from the same address in the junk file ?

We have made at least three attempts to communicate with you by email as the new server refuses to recognize our password.  I wonder, as we have no bounce messages, if an automated reply is sending them to our old isp, seasurf.net.  Could we get a manual reply maybe?

Finally, on a site that involves no legal, financial, trade secret etc. info, maybe we don't need as much "safety."  And maybe a default that sent only the digest might  simplify life for you and the largest portion of the community. Two quarter-baked ideas that may add  up to one half-baked idea.

For the rest of you,  you see why many of us who used  the internet before AOL etc. use "AOL" as a swear word second only to "M*cr*s*ft.

Don 



> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:28:00 -0700
> From: jimnorton at jimnorton.org
> To: obol at oregonbirdwatch.org
> Subject: [obol] AOL Spam Reports
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I've received about 30 separate reports from AOL indicating that some  
> person(s) are reporting OBOL posts as spam.
> 
> This is *not* good! If enough of these reports are filed with AOL, AOL  
> will again block all mail from the OBOL list mail server meaning that  
> no AOL members will receive OBOL posts.
> 
> I spent a lot of time in the beginning getting my email server removed  
> from AOL blacklist. I won't be doing it again. So I suggest that AOL  
> members do not report OBOL posts as spam.
> 
> Instead, if you don't wish to receive OBOL posts in you AOL inbox then  
> either use the system tools provided to make the needed changes  
> yourself or send me an email requesting a change be made.
> 
> I repeat... I will not again jump through 2,000 AOL hoops to get my  
> mail server removed from AOL's blacklist. So if you AOL members wish  
> to continue receiving OBOL posts I recommend you read the above  
> carefully.
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Norton
> 
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> a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill
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