(OT) Reporting spam to AOL.

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Bill Campbell propounded (on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:29:15AM -0700):
>| I just had to remove an address from the FilePro list because the owner
>| reported the first spam that got through to the list in months was reported
>| to AOL as spam, and I received and SCOMP report from AOL with the
>| complaint.
>
>Please spellcheck and reparse that sentence, it's less than clear.

It means basically think before pressing the this is spam button
on AOL mail.  There aren't many spam messages that get through to
the list, which requires a fair amount of effort on my part to
keep it clean.  Some spam will get through, in spite of these
efforts, but I think it's minimal.

>| Our agreement with AOL is that when we receive these SCOMP reports we
>| *MUST* remove the address *WITHOUT* contacting the person sending the
>| complaint.
>
>What kind of an agreement has celestial.com signed with aol.com ???

See http://postmaster.aol.com/fbl/index.html

AOL provides the feedback loop so that sites hosting mailing
lists have a way of getting feedback from AOL when their members
report messages as spam, and helps being able to deliver mail to
AOL customers.

If the sender had been somebody I've known and respected for
years, I would get in touch with them, but if it's somebody who's
been a PITA, blacklisting mail from my e-mail address at AOL...

Bill
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