NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Administrivia: All AOL addresses may be removed from this mailing list
Administrivia: All AOL addresses may be removed from this mailing list After years of fighting with AOL's bizarre and unresponsive dispute resolution system, I am strongly considering dropping all AOL subscribers (and across my lists, that's a significant number of people) from all of my mailing lists. AOL's policy of suddenly blocking (without warning) inbound email even for IP addresses and domains with good reputations (even according to AOL's own tools!) has become intolerable. Even worse, AOL's own system encourages subscribers to hit the "spam abuse" button as a shortcut to bothering to follow normal list unsubscription procedures when they decide to leave a list, even though the list material isn't spam and was explicitly subscribed by the users. Obviously, AOL subscribers will not see this message that you are reading, since they are currently blocked by AOL. However, I have two requests for those of you wise enough not to be dealing with AOL email. 1) If you happen to know anyone on these lists who is an AOL subscriber, please urge them to unsubscribe, then resubscribe from a decent Web-based email system at least, such as Gmail. For that matter, even if they aren't on any of my lists, urge them to stop using AOL email. 2) If perchance you know of an actual *human being* in the AOL postmaster hierarchy, assuming that there are any of course, I'd appreciate your asking them to get in touch with me ASAP. I don't want to end up having to "punish" AOL subs due to AOL's own neglect, and perhaps this situation can still be saved. Thanks much. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com