(OT) Reporting spam to AOL.

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:54:47PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> >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.
>
>It also helps keep the list server from being blacklisted by AOL, which
>would preclude *any* users on that service from receiving mail from the
>list.

That's probably the primary reason we signed up for that as we host several
other lists with numerous AOL subscribers.

Every month when the mailing list reminder notices go out, I get several
SCOMP notices relating to subscribers on one list who're too lazy or
ignorant to follow the directions in the message to unsubscribe themselves.

Bill
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