- AOL & co.
- Posted by William Tasso on March 7th, 2006
Greetings One & All
Prey tell me if you can ....
Does reporting stuff to support @ AOL actually get results? or is it a
complete waste of effort?
Take it easy out there.
--
William Tasso
whither a trophy?
- Posted by Who Turned Off The Lights? on March 7th, 2006
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:50:03 -0000, William Tasso wrote:
As a consumer: Well, when I had an account with them the only thing that
got their attention was when I tried to cancel my account just to find them
offering me another coupla free months. :-)
As a webmaster: I've never managed to get on their whitelist. :-(
- Posted by Brian Wakem on March 7th, 2006
William Tasso wrote:
Only dealings with AOL I've had was getting our mail server put on their
whitelist. That took unbelievable amounts of hoop jumping and speaking to
a different idiot each time, all as clueless as the last.
You'd think they'd have top notch support staff given that they have the
dumbest userbase....
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Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png
- Posted by Who Turned Off The Lights? on March 7th, 2006
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:27:49 +0000, Brian Wakem wrote:
Question, do you think you'll remain on the whitelist after this upcoming
thing with Goodmail? or are you a nonprofit?
- Posted by MGW on March 7th, 2006
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:27:49 +0000, Brian Wakem <no@email.com>
scrawled:
Nah - their userbase is too dumb to figure out how to change to a rea
ISP.
--
MGW
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even
when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. - Douglas Hofstadter
- Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on March 7th, 2006
Brian Wakem wrote:
Perhaps you have discovered the reason they have the dumbest userbase!
--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
- Posted by Karl Groves on March 7th, 2006
"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote in news
p.s516ppvwm9g4qz-
wnt@tbdata.com:
To support? I dunno.
I know they take abuse complaints pretty seriously though.
--
Karl Groves
http://karlcore.com
http://chevelle.karlcore.com
Accessibility Discussion List: http://smallerurl.com/?id=6p764du
- Posted by William Tasso on March 7th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the Somewhat jungle
Karl Groves <karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
Thanks everyone. Yes. it is an abuse issue.
Not sure if they can do much about it - these addresses are being inserted
into odd-ball form-fields on a few contact forms as BCC:[user]@aol.com.
The mail isn't sent anywhere except to me. It's as if a bot is trying
repeatedly to bang its head on the door hoping - that I'll work out what
it wants and let it through :|
Coming through in batches of up to 5 at a time. No major issue but mildly
irritating. I imagine that one of the addresses in each batch belongs to
the miscreant.
Also noted a 10x increase in mail server rejects (sender verify mostly and
with a few relay denied) over the last couple of days. Must be a lot
hitting home too as the total amount of mail activity has risen quite
dramatically too.
Plot thickens .... there's ill deeds afoot.
--
William Tasso
whither a trophy?
- Posted by robert blake on March 7th, 2006
MGW <mgw1979@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:cnsr02dc4ti5phcebchh1q4k1vc5l6lqpb@4ax.com:
yes, tis internet for the masses, MGW
me and fluffy frown upon their offerings.
- Posted by robert blake on March 7th, 2006
"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote
Tougher hacking laws get support
Anyone found hacking a pc could be punished with up to 10 years'
imprisonment under new laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4781608.stm
