If you are a user of AOL, and CBD-Search, you might have noticed some problems with our site.
We have again (for the 3rd time in the last 6 years) been added to AOL's Spammers List. We are not sure at this stage whether CBD-Search has been added, or whether all sites hosted by our hosting company have been affected, due to the practise of some ISP's these days to block whole IP ranges based on the activities of one individual. We are contacting AOL, but this can take some time as they are not one of the best company's when it comes to service.
For more information on our Spamming Policy and what you can do to help, please refer to my article on Subscription SPAM.
I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for this situation, and pray that it will not cause too much annoyance.
Because of our security policies and procedures, the effect of this is that any new submitters who subscribe using an AOL address will be rejected because our system will not be able to send you an email to allow you to verify your email address.
It also means that existing users can not request a password reminder or our newsletter, or any other email based service. Also, we reverify accounts every so often, and if we can not contact our AOL users and this problem remains, your accounts will begin to terminate and be removed.
The best solution is to use a non-AOL email address at all times (Their anti-SPAM policy is terrible. For example, if another AOL user, by using that handy little 'SPAM' button, causes an email that you want to receive, to be marked as SPAM, you will be blocked from receiving that email too).
We have no doubt that this problem will again be resolved in AOL's own time, and we are also in no doubt that another of their users will, in turn, press that handy little 'SPAM' button (for one of our emails or one sent by someone else hosted by our hosting company) which will again cause us to be blocked.
You are welcome to complain to AOL, but unfortunately we can not change our security measures. We have excepted AOL users from our security measures in the past because of AOL's 'incredible' security implementations from time to time, but we must have some standard and integrity when it comes to security and so can not conform to what any large ISP tries to dictate.
For more information on our Spamming Policy and what you can do to help, please refer to my article on Subscription SPAM.
2 Comments:
AOL is a horrible Anti-American company owned by another horrible Anti-Americna company TimeWarner. AOL uses spam as an excuse to block legimate communciation from people that are not paying them. At the same time they constantly spam their own "members" with their pornographic ads from TimeWarner. Start telling your users the truth about AOL because only "the truth will set you free."
We at CBD-Search do have our own views of AOL and are aware of some of their practices.
Although we disagree with some of the things that companies like AOL are doing and the deceit involved, we do not want to get involved in any hate campaign or try to influence people's decisions based on our own views.
However, we are seriously considering not allowing anyone to register at our website using email addresses belonging to some undesirable companies with deceitful and trouble/SPAM creating policies.
We feel that the huge amount of work involved trying to negotiate email transfer with these companies is not worth it, especially when we expect that anyone submitting a resource to CBD-Search should have a real email address (probably @ their own domain) and should not need to use unreliable and troublesome email services such as Hotmail or AOL.
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