Does Aol Block Your Legit Optin Mailers?

Sword · 01-16-2003

Do any of you have a hard time (or impossible time) getting legitimate Opt-In mailers into AOL?

Is there any recourse one could take to remedy the situation, once AOL starts blocking their legitimate mailers?

sextoyking · 01-17-2003

Hi,

well AOL has been pretty hard on some mailers / hosts lately with email.

from what I have been told there new policy is like you can only have either 10 or 100 "spam complaints" per 1 million emails or something like that...

Mutt · 01-17-2003

i don't like spam but i HATE hypocrisy. Somebody should start up a class action suit against AOL for spamming.

Sword · 01-17-2003

I agree with you there Mutt. AOL is relentless in their marketing: popups, spam, absurd amounts of direct mail, telemarketing and on and on. For them to block legitimate optin emails seems like the ultimate hypocrisy.

Sword · 01-17-2003

Ok check this out, according to this article, legitimate Opt-in mailers have to contact AOL in order to get their mailers past their filters:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-240907.html?legacy=cnet

Anyone know anything about that? Who/how do you contact AOL to get them to stop blocking optin mail?

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Sword Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 208	Do any of you have a hard time (or impossible time) getting legitimate Opt-In mailers into AOL? Is there any recourse one could take to remedy the situation, once AOL starts blocking their legitimate mailers?

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Mutt Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,087	i don't like spam but i HATE hypocrisy. Somebody should start up a class action suit against AOL for spamming.