On Jun 19, 2005, at 5:26, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Sorry to post this via the group again, but I am still unable to post
to AOL, also verizon.net and frontier.net.
The technical guy at orpheus/appleshack assures me it's because they
have set their spam filters too high and so legitimate messages posted
to their customers are being rejected.
Yesterday (or maybe the day before?) your message (to lace) - about
Edition 3 of Threads for Lace - got stopped by my ISP, and I had to go
to their website to retrieve it. It's the first time that's happened,
since I also subscribe, via the ISP, to Postini (a virus and spam
filter).
I've long believed that some messages get rejected/tagged as spam
because of the subject line. During the period when every second spam
message wanted to sell me a Rolex watch, my message to Dominique (in
Paris), which had "rolled cords" as the subject line got rejected also.
When I changed the subject line it was delivered.
A strong stance on junk mail is commendable, but not so good if it's
rejecting bone fide messages.
Which is why I like my ISP-cum-Postini much better; both let *me*
decide whether to zap the message (and its sender) or to accept it. I
can then designate the sender's address as as "acceptable", and no more
problems (one hopes <g>)...
And Anne, in Austin, Texas wrote:
I ran into problems sending to AOL addresses in another group. The
tech I
talked with said it was because I had a business card attachment.
Just a
few days earlier I had no problems with sending to AOL. It coincided
with
AOL's decision to start attaching ads, etc., to emails. It could be
that
the unsubscribe tag is causing the bounces. AOL members are only
allowed to
send to a maximum of 10 people if even 1 of the addresses is to a Yahoo
address. This went into effect at the same time.
Cheese, Louise... Why would anyone want to stay with AOL then? It's not
as if they're a free service, and if they're gonna add ads to emails
and, at the same time, act like a robber baron monopoly (barring free
services like yahoo)...
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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