On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 07:00 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
wrote:
> AOL has many things going on right now..their new software allows
> a user to report something as spam by simply clicking on a button,
> which is, as I understand it, right next to other buttons on which the
> user would otherwise click.
yes, sometimes upwards of 50 times in a row.
> As a result, AOL users are suddenly
> generating large numbers of spam reports, sometimes
> unintentionally, often without something being spam.
Yes, and it seems AOL believes them, too. at least based on my email
with them today.
>
> And, obviously, their inbound spam control is sub-optimal too
which is why that user just gave up and started pushing the "spam"
button without looking at the e-mail, in fact, because her in-box is so
overful with the stuff it's driving her crazy.
> (that
> said, getting it just right is something which no large U.S. ISP of
> which I'm aware has yet done).
so why is it that I get almost no spam to my earthlink account and I
don't see continuing, loud, unhappy noises like this from earthlink
users? They're not AS big as AOL, but they're big enough that the
scaling issues simply aren't that important.
> In fact, our having our licensees
> whitelisted at AOL is one of the most oft-cited "the thing which
> convinced me"s for list owners signing up with us - not having to try
> to deal with trying to get one's confirmed opt-in through to AOL
> users
unless, of course, your e-mail is part of the ~20% that seems to
disappear in their SMTP systems without any trace, whether it's list
mail, personal mail, or whatever.
> (hoops through which you *shouldn't* have to jump when
> running a confirmed opt-in list!) seems to be a big deal. :-(
>
Or trying to send confirmations for an opt-in list, which I've seen
disappeared by AOL. Or sending first class (i.e. me to you) e-mail,
which also disappears in a documentedly depressing volume.
AOL's new "report spam" stuff is an utter disaster. Whoever thought it
up ought to be shot. That they're actually paying attention to it is
silly, given the high volume of mistakes they get with it.
--
Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
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IMHO.
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