Topband: Not sure why it was bouncing.....

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

I'm not an ISP admin or guru. So my comments are from the user side of
the fence and in support of what Dave said. Once upon a time Al Gore
released internet access to the public and there were a number of
startup companies. Some of them had and still have "cute" marketing
ploys and gambits..but terrible service and rotten customer relations. I
have *NEVER* used AOL because I saw all the grief my friends and
associates were having with AOL. My recommendation is to dump them, at
least for email lists like this one.

If you don't really have any better choices for ISP where you live at
least give Gmail a try. The price is certainly right. My own label for
AOL is "all outta luck". Good luck with your problems

73,

Bill  KU8H


On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 07:29 -0500, Dave Pascoe wrote:
> I am one of the (long time) admins of this system.  The issue has been all
> AOL.  They look at email volume, among other things, and the surge of email
> around this time of year tripped one of their email volume tripwires.
>  They're not very sophisticated, as evidenced by the fact that we have no
> issues with other domains.  We have gone around and around with their
> (outsourced) Postmaster team, and it has taken over a week to get any kind
> of response from them.  This has been going on, on and off, for years.
>  What adds to the issue is that certain (subscribed) AOL users choose to
> hit their "This is Spam" button from time to time on posts that are
> perfectly legitimate - they presumably do this because they are all upset
> that they have to read yet another email on a list that *they* subscribed
> to - that doesn't help either.
> 
> If you want my professional advice, ditch AOL for your email list activity
> and get a real email account from a serious email provider, like Gmail
> - keep AOL for your personal activity if you don't feel like telling the
> world that your email changed.   Your view and desires as a user may
> differ, and you may suffer accordingly.  We have done and continue to do
> everything that we can technically on our end to run a reputable server and
> comply with all applicable internet and email standards, and we have done
> so since the early 1990's.
> 
> 73,
> Dave KM3T
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