AOL MAIL PROBLEMS-read these quotes

[Guest guest]

Unless you restrict your conversation to making

blackberry pie and the latest football game, I can

assure you that your email problems with AOL are not

over and will never be over.

 

AOL reads its email for key words subjects that it has

banned and also for internet links which it has

banned (it’s a secret list) If your email contains a

no-no word or no-no-link, it will never arrive in your

AOL email box. They call this “Spam.”

 

AOL justifies this by explaining that it is a

" community " and any community is justified to set its

own standards. If you wanted to define its mindset,

perhaps “New World Order” might be the best term.

Another key word when you think of AOL is ADL—they

seem to decide what is “hateful.”

 

I have over 100 references on AOL, which I would be

happy to mail you, but you would likely never receive

them. People have taken out entire websites to attack

AOL.

 

Best bet-drop AOL.

 

By the way, it is also reported to be very difficult

to cancel AOL. Be sure to get a cancellation number

and, if worst comes to worst, it was suggested you

cancel your automatic credit card payments.

 

Here are just a few quotes from some of the references

I looked up on AOL.

 

Quotes About AOL-part II

 

Pick and Choose Approach to Email Delivery

http://www.aolwatch.org/aolwatch21b.htm

 

This lax attitude -- and a pick-and-choose approach to

e-mail delivery -- have left an underclass of on-line

citizens. The New York Times reports that AOL has come

to be known as the internet's lowest caste.

 

A Second Look at AOL, the Refurbished Ellis Island of

the Net

September 17, 1998

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/circuits/computing/17comp.html

and the relentless stream of advertisements that greet

the masses upon logging on.

 

.. AOL expects to start mailing millions and millions

of the disks within the next month, however, just in

time for my cranky friend Ron Reason to continue his

annual Halloween tradition of handing them out to

unsuspecting trick-or-treaters in his South Florida

neighborhood. (The Macintosh version will lag by a few

weeks, an AOL spokeswoman said.)

 

then Marketing to speedily cancel all those " valuable

product and service offers " that AOL and its partners

serve up via e-mail, phone solicitation, the Postal

Service and pop-up on-screen windows.

 

“If you write to this site and do not receive an

answer

please be aware of several problems associated some

email domains”

http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/id540.htm

 

Langa List Quote:

AOL is at it again. This time, it's reading *inside*

its members' emails, and preemptively blocking any

messages that contain links to sites that AOL doesn't

want you to see.

 

Note: I'm *not* talking about simple mail blocks,

where a mail is discarded if it originates from a

“forbidden” address. No: AOL is parsing the content of

its members' emails and blocking them even if they

merely *mention* a site that AOL disapproves of….

 

 

Study: ISPs block some legitimate e-mails

August 12, 2003

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/08/11/daily14.html

 

Also:

AOL filters out some e-mail from ISPs

June 11, 2003

http://news.com.com/AOL+filters+out+some+e-mail+from+ISPs/2100-1032_3-1014827.ht\

ml

 

 

AOL Sucks Ass

http://www.afterophelia.com/aol.htm

 

I quickly became overwhelmed in a sea of spam. Then I

unsuccessfully tried to use a " shortcut " on my

desktop. Then I realized that chat rooms are really,

really stupid. Then there were programs I wanted to

run, but AOL seemed to be blocking it. Then when I

wanted to sign off line, AOL would force me to remain

on as it downloaded files the pop-up window claimed I

needed. Then I grew weary of all of those ads! Then

AOL called me at home to try and sell me a book that

would improve my Internet experience. A week later,

another AOL telemarketer tried to sell me long

distance service. Then the same voice that had

comforted me with my first " welcome " began to mock me

with " goodbye " as I was repeatedly booted offline.

 

It wasn't AOL that rocked- it was the INTERNET that

did. It had been my belief for that first month of

computer ownership that AOL was the Internet. (A

delusion that the good people at America Online like

their customers to hold on to.) It quickly became

apparent that there exists a great online experience,

and that cannot be found surfing on AOL.

 

 

An Insider’s Look Into AOL

http://anti-aol.org/special/interview.shtml

 

The squeaky clean, 'family community' fascade AOL

masks itself with was shown to be a sham, as

corruption, apathy, and greed run rampant through all

levels of the company.

 

 

AOL's Borg " You Will Be Assimilated " Mentality

http://anti-aol.org/special/insider2.shtml Impt

article

We were also told during " Sherlock " training that

AOL's intent is to own the Internet, and that it would

in the near future. It already owns ICQ, Sprynet, and

now Gateway.net.

 

The speeches and claims reminded me of Adolf

Hitler and his desire for Lebensraum for Germany.

 

AOL's CAT department also does monitoring of accounts,

internal and member's, to keep track of any potential

problems and " catch " people doing TOS

violations...this includes monitoring and saving IM'

from member's to each other, and any other trick they

pull.the Community Action team reports it and people's

accounts are canceled...and this in direct violation

of the TOS, which states that AOL will not monitor or

keep track of IM's! Big brother does whatever he wants

 

I was getting to that near the end...so I got my stock

cashed in (took three weeks) and got out...felt like

I'm sure a Jew would feel leaving on the eve of

Hitler's takeover in Germany in 1933.....continual

tension, and threats by management, never knowing what

was happening..the place made me feel

dehumanized...and I finally quit hoping things would

work out and I quit.

 

 

 

EVIDENCE OF READING PERSONAL IM:

The speeches and claims reminded me of Adolf Hitler

and his desire for Lebensraum for Germany.

 

AOL's CAT department also does monitoring of

accounts, internal and member's, to keep track of any

potential problems and " catch " people doing TOS

violations...this includes monitoring and saving IM'

from member's to each other, and any other trick they

pull.the Community Action team reports it and people's

accounts are canceled...and this in direct violation

of the TOS, which states that AOL will not monitor or

keep track of IM's! Big brother does whatever he

wants.

 

Interview With an ex-AOL Employee

http://anti-aol.org/special/insider4.shtml

 

" Sounds like you were working for the mob rather than

a large corporation. "

 

Yes, but they work people hard, and too hard. If they

burn out it's easier to fire and re-hire someone now.

Plus, they'd get the benefit of no having to pay stock

benefits, too.

 

Easily, it was how much we hurt the members who called

in. We were lying to and misleading them when they

asked for help. We had to blame their phone lines,

their computers...everything but AOL, even though we

knew it was AOL that hosed things.

 

The last straw? I had long been hearing about AOL

abusing members and other employees; plus, I had

nearly chronic diarrhea from worry about the job's

requirements itself, sleeping problems unless I drank

at night, and my health started to suffer, so I

decided to sell my stock and leave.

I knew people who had to drop percoset to make it

through a shift smoke pot, let alone those who would

have sex in the parking lot just to get rid of the

stress. A custodian who managed the cleaning staff

said he'd seen people drop their headsets and scream

until they were taken out. We were being told we

couldn't have a personal identity. Ugh, that really

pissed me off!

One guy, they found under his desk behind the

chair. It took a while to find him, though...Plus,

near the end of my time there, we weren't supposed to

say anything negative, especially about AOL itself.

 

" You know people will consider this to be quite

exaggerated, right? "

 

Why AOL Is Not a Wise Choice

http://geocities.com/tara_d8/aolsux2.html

 

See for many reasons to not have AOL

 

Banned by AOL

12-22-03

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=5939

 

Wow! -- my stupid poem, my puny blog, deemed

" offensive " by a colossal corporation. My first

reaction was that " Banned by AOL " would look great on

my homepage. Then I started to wonder, as the

anonymous commenter had: Does AOL censor email? And if

so how? When and why? Come to think of it, Is that

even legal? What constitutes " a high volume of

complaints " and who is doing the whining?

 

Banned by AOL

12-22-03

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=5939

 

See for examples of banned groups such as moveon.org

 

VIRTUALLY VIOLATED

August 3, 1999

http://www.wiredstrategies.com/mugged.html

 

Serious concerns about AOL monitoring and keeping

secret records

 

 

Email Server Banned

http://quick-responder.com/bademail.html

 

Isn't it odd too that so many people get so violent

about electronic mail? I stood in line at the post

office, two days before writing this page, for a piece

of junk mail that would not fit in my box - a CD from

guess who - AOL! That environment polluting piece of

junk went into the trash. The post office can pay to

have it hauled off and we will all cover the cost by

paying more for stamps. Gee, I'm sure glad it wasn't

e-mail - I would have wasted 1/10 of a second hitting

" delete. "

 

Are you aware that there are a handful (relatively

speaking) of anti-spam crusaders that will

deliberately sign up for your lists just to accuse you

of spam? It's easy for them because if they say it is

spam, your webhost, email provider and/or ISP is just

going to take their word for it. They will never even

give you the name or email address of the person so

you will have no opportunity to prove they signed up.

Shoot, you can't even take them off your list!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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