> Hello Paul -- I'm rather amazed that a scientific
person like you is getting
> so bent-out-of-shape over some bounced messages
from AOL.  I have messages
> bounced, and a telephone call revealed the alleged
recipient had not paid his
> bill.  He was several months in arrears.  Also, my
wife has
> earthlink/mindspring
> and has more trouble with e-mail messages than I
do with AOL.  And I think
> many services and receivers are having problems
with implementing their spam
> blocker systems.  I have had trouble with some of
that and it was not AOL.
>      But its your network to do as you please.  I
have enough trouble with my
> computer without switching systems.
> Yours for fun flying with a rotary.  Buck
Buchanan.

Hi Buck, I'm in the yacht brokerage business. So
many times clients are
asking for photos, information etc. AOL kicks back
anything more than one or
two attachments, or converts the images to god knows
what? I have to ask the
client to come up with a different than AOL address.
Personally never liked
AOL.
Bulent

I know this has nothing to do with Rotary Engines..
    but a final note on AOL from me (mark)

I do understand a little of what's going on here with
AOL - I manage mail servers that have automated
spam/virus protection built in too..

AOL really doesn't care about Paul's newsletter
getting through. Some of the ACRE postings
(particularly those with attachments) are meeting a
SPAM points system indicating that they are SPAM to be
bounced.

If Paul calls AOL they might (eventually) be able to
get this working consistently. [see my other posting
about how difficult this was for other newsletter
authors to get this working for them]. The problem
starts with the fact that Paul is not an AOL customer.

If you who are AOL customers call AOL directly and
complain that they are not getting the ACRE
newsletter, I can guarantee that AOL support will
first try and pass it off as a newsletter problem.

Some ISP's are better than others in how they identify
SPAM an fix the false-positives that are being seen
here. AOL is generally one of the worst for correcting
these problems (NetZero is another one...)

AOL has done very well by grabbing a very high
market-share knowing that, in general, once they have
a subscriber it's very unlikely that they'll switch
[this was their marketing strategy of the '90's]. For
this newsletter you don't have to switch though from
using AOL though - just use one of the free email
services for this newsletter instead [ google, yahoo,
hotmail etc ].

Mark

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