Posted on 07/30/2004 7:23:13 AM PDT by hardhead
Let me first say that I do not like America Online. I have had (well-documented) experiences with that company sufficient to justify my dislike.
I have previously written about the very large number of consumer complaints directed at AOL by customers and former customers. I spent a full day on the Internet investigating them before writing my article. Based on what I saw, I am not the Lone Ranger in my disdain for what I perceive to be a lack of business ethics at this company.
I have saved numerous letters to my internet service provider about e-mail delivery problems. I keep getting returned e-mails sent to valid addresses. I keep copies of my e-mails and my server's responses. It happened so often, I began to watch for trends.
E-mails on religious topics are always delivered to all recipients listed except people with @aol.com addresses. I usually send to about 25 people, eight of whom have @aol.com addresses.
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P.S. I've noticed this before but it was always a minor glitch. This morning my 'Liberty Watch' newsletter was returned from AOL for all my AOL subscribers. Must have been this particular story which I ran.
I dumped them several years ago. Best move I ever made. It's my understanding that Compuserve is also an AOL affiliate.
Wouldn't surprise me. Just part of the greater open discrimination and hostility and intolerance of the Left toward certain people of faith.
Has anyone else had trouble with them continuing to bill your credit card after you cancelled?
I know of a local church that had difficulties sending its newsletter to AOL accounts. They had to set something up separately. I'm unfamiliar with how they resolved it, but they were able to send them as a group, but separate from all other accounts.
Funny, now if you IM "Smarter CHild" and ask if it's a Kerry supporter, the bot states "Robots don't really get involved in politics...
You decide. Who do you want to win in November?
1 John Kerry
2 George W. Bush"
Why Bush 2nd? On the ballots, I believe he'll be listed first because of alphabetical order. If not that, because he's the incumbant. Hmmm....
I worked for a company that supported their servers once. In a very short time we privately referred to them as A--holes On Line.
Guy at my church had to battle them for a year, change his credit cards, and ultimately go to the Ohio Attorny General to get them to stop.
AOL often assumes anything sent to lists of recipients is SPAM.
Capital B Capital S.
My story tops them all.
I work for the federal government. We share a building with several private sector firms, and a few years ago, AOL rented some office space.
One fine day in 2001, a few months before 9/11, the AOL office got a bomb threat. Their employees were dismissed for the day.
Did AOL bother to inform the other offices in the building of the threat? Not on your life. They all cleared out and went home. We found out about it the next day.
I will NEVER use AOL after that.
I dumped AOL years ago, and still get an occasional CD-ROM for them. I had absolutely no problem with billing, and the guy I talked to was really nice.
Sending email to an AOL user is always chancy though, even if there is nothing political or controversial in the message. I never had one come back as undelivered, though. AOL's email service is just a black hole that gives you no idea whether the message was delivered.
BUMP and PING
Thanks for the ping.
I knew it was a smart thing
not to use them. ;o)
The internet certainly wonderful. No accountability, yet everyone relies on it and believes in it.
AOL is extremeny pro-Kerry. Look at their news selections.
Even the AOL-for-children is biased. Recent news stories covered the fact that the AOL artificial intelligence "friend" for children would spout anti-Republican slogans and say that it was voting for Kerry.
My, my, my!! Just now, I tried to send this article to two
friends (Christians) who use AOL. In the subject line, I used the same wording as the title of your article above. Within milliseconds, I received a message from my internet provider (not AOL) that my messages were undeliverable.
Amazing. Pathetic.
I'll now send these message to my friends by changing the title and see if they go through.
I recently switched from AOL to Qwest DSL, quite a price difference.
I've gotten around this by placing 'Filtered E-Mail' in the subject line. Then, in the body (rich text) precede and end the link with 8 or 9 asterisks, click on insert 'hyperlink' and erase the link; the receiver will have to cut and paste the URL into their browser without the asterisks. It slips right on by them.
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