Re: AOL Issue

Then don't use AOL, dumbass!  AOL SUCKS!  You're quite ignorant if you use 
AOL!!  AOL is for newbies.  Advanced people like me, use a REAL ISP, you 
obviously are the ignorant one, not me so don't try to label me again, 
understand idiot of the day???

"Chris Wright" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> It was mentioned in another thread, but I have never been able to find any 
> other mention of it.
>
> I've been a user of SPAMCOP for a few years now, and have no problems with 
> reporting of SPAM etc.
>
> A good few months back I started getting failure messages back from AOL 
> when I used accounts that I forward SPAM from to SPAMCOP.
>
> Something along the lines of "AOL is not able to process your email 
> because it comes from a domain that reports SPAM".
>
> Was this ever discussed on SPAMCOP?
>
> Are you aware of any other ISP's/Organizations that do similar.
>
> As I have always considered AOL one level above amoeba, it wasn't a 
> problem to me.  I contacted the AOL users via GMAIL and forwarded them a 
> copy of the returned mail headers.  Showing them that they won't allow 
> people who report SPAM to send them mail, let alone those that send SPAM 
> in the first place.  Most were offended enough to ditch AOL, or at least 
> complain and for everyone person I get to quit AOL, the better I feel.
>
> Does anyone know their justification for doing this?
>
> Why would people I consider responsible, or part of the fight against SPAM 
> be targeted by AOL ?
>
> I can't see their rationale behind it? (Maybe their abuse department is 
> far too overstretched as is, but a simple filter to ditch/bin/redirect 
> mail from SPAMCOP abuse would suffice?).
>
> As one AOL user pointed out to me, they still get a ton of SPAM so their 
> policies can't be that effective.
>
>
> Just curious as to if this was discussed previously.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
> ps. Hope this is the right group for this discussion.