[Tfug] Technical harassment, or "Computer knowledge is more importantthan anything else intheworld."

[Jon]

George Cohn said:
> Jon wrote:
>>
>>
>> Are you referring to the possibility of the list being blacklisted or
>> blocked by some other host?
>>
>
> I've seen it happen more than once, especially with AOL.  A user doesn't
> want to bother to unsubscribe from a list so they mark the messages as
> spam and they get returned to AOL.
>
> Once they get a few dozen, they place that host on their "black hole"
> list and block any messages from them to any user at AOL.
>
> It's happened to us more than a few times on the jag-lovers lists that I
> admin.  We have to call them and explain that we run an opt-in list with
> many links to allow the user to unsubscribe yet their users are too
> dense to understand that all it takes is clicking on a link.
>
> Happened with a few other ISP's as well but I don't think we've had
> nearly as many problems with all of them put together as with AOL users.
>
> We also require plain text and no attachments and we had a devil of a
> time with one release of the AOL software as there just wasn't any easy
> way to set it to send plain text.  Not my idea of a progressive ISP,
> just a good marketing campaign.
>
> We finally developed our own software that allows us to run mailing
> lists and web based forums in sync.  Anything that gets posted to one
> gets copied to the other as well so users have the best of both worlds,
> e-mail based or web based.
>
> George Cohn
> www.jag-lovers.org


I don't doubt any of what you stated. I've had nothing but bad experiences
with AOL and listservs. I have argued for a long time that AOL should
remove the ability for their users to tag something as spam thus
blacklisting it from the entire AOL network.


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Jon