Comments on: AOL finding uphappy median on spam http://michaelgracie.com/2006/02/24/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/ Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:07:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Scotty http://michaelgracie.com/2006/02/24/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-128 Scotty Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:58:09 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-128 AOL is losing it. I have a newsletter that I send out and people have to double opt-in. Everytime I send the newsletter I get spam complaints because lazy AOL users hit the SPAM button rather than unsubscribe. I've fixed it though. I've locked out anyone from the aol.com domain from subscribing. It's just not worth it to me. AOL is losing it. I have a newsletter that I send out and people have to double opt-in. Everytime I send the newsletter I get spam complaints because lazy AOL users hit the SPAM button rather than unsubscribe. I’ve fixed it though. I’ve locked out anyone from the aol.com domain from subscribing. It’s just not worth it to me.

]]> By: Michael Gracie http://michaelgracie.com/2006/02/24/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-127 Michael Gracie Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:03:19 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-127 <p>K, you are spot on there. Looks like "inflammatory rhetoric" may lead to conspiracy theories sooner than I suspected.</p> K, you are spot on there. Looks like “inflammatory rhetoric” may lead to conspiracy theories sooner than I suspected.

]]> By: Kelson http://michaelgracie.com/2006/02/24/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-126 Kelson Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:21:25 +0000 http://www.michaelgracie.com/aol-finding-uphappy-median-on-spam/#comment-126 <p>The crazy thing is that AOL is not requiring people to pay up in order to send mail. It's a bypass method -- one of several, IIRC. So you don't sign up with GoodMail, you can still send mail to AOL subscribers. Sure, you're then at the mercy of AOL's spam filters -- but then so is the guy sending his buddy an email with photos from his fishing trip.</p> <p>Though now that I think of it, MoveOn was the site that complained about the potential of Razor in the pre-Cloudmark days) to be <a href="http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.mail.spam.razor.user&query=moveon.org" rel="nofollow">used as a censorship tool</a>.</p> The crazy thing is that AOL is not requiring people to pay up in order to send mail. It’s a bypass method — one of several, IIRC. So you don’t sign up with GoodMail, you can still send mail to AOL subscribers. Sure, you’re then at the mercy of AOL’s spam filters — but then so is the guy sending his buddy an email with photos from his fishing trip.

Though now that I think of it, MoveOn was the site that complained about the potential of Razor in the pre-Cloudmark days) to be used as a censorship tool.

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