GDG- AOL HELL

[Howard Siegal]

Although this is not my business, after having been a member for a few years
and seeing the continued AOL problems, why not just tell people that AOL is
not an acceptable email address for the GDG. There are numerous free email
services that work just fine.

Howard Siegal


On 8/23/06, Julian Brown <julian at jlbprof.com> wrote:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> This is a quote from my interchange with New Dehli, it is a good place to
> be but it can be taken away from us.  To combat this I am going to take a
> HARSH STANCE on blocks from people with AOL.  My only question to AOL'ers is
> why you use them?  They do not offer anything that a dozen other companies
> don't offer and for less money.
>
> Thanx
>
> Julian
>
> Quoted from New Dehli:
>
> White listing exempts you from many of the spam filters at our mail
> gateways,
> but it is not a guarantee of delivery.  As was indicated in the
> guidelines, AOL
> requests that mailers keep their complaint rates under 0.1%, bounce rates
> under
> 10% and bounce acceptance rates above 90%.  If any of these thresholds are
> broken, you will be sent an email notification (report card) on the
> morning of
> the following day to postmaster and abuse at your domain name.  If you get
> these regularly, it's a good idea to examine your process and procedures
> for
> list acquisition and management.  Not doing so could result in complaints
> reaching a high enough threshold that you incur a dynamic block.  As the
> name
> implies, there is no advance warning with this block.  You will know it
> occurred
> by the presence of 554 RLY:B1 message returns in your mail logs.
>
>
> Robert Lawrence wrote:
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Per aol the white list is a permanent fix. We shall see
> > --------------------------
> > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com <gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com>
> > To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>
> > Sent: Wed Aug 23 19:38:48 2006
> > Subject: Re: GDG- AOL HELL
> >
> > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> >
> >
> > << Thanks to the hard work of Julian Brown(who has spent more time
> talking
> > to
> > New Delhi in the last 6 weeks than most people will in a lifetime, we
> have
> > been "white listed" by AOL meaning they will once more let AOL members
> > receive our posts. >>
> >
> > Care to start a pool on how long that lasts?
> >
> > Jim Cameron
> >
> >
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