Note To AOL Users

[Elton]

As part of their plan for total world domination ™, AOL appear to be completely blacklisting emails from various ISP's lately. As you will see from the following thread, that includes the one that hosts this site:

 

http://forum.xcalibre.co.uk/showthread.php...79&referrerid=0

 

The guys at xcalibre are on the case, but are one in a long list of ISP's suffering at the hands of AOL.

 

If any AOL user needs any facility on this site that requires an automatic email (i.e. password retrieval), can they please email me - mailto:elton@anglingsites.comelton@anglingsites.com

 

Far be it for me to say which ISP anyone should choose, but certain ones not only block your access to major parts of the www, but now censor your emails. Any complaint sent by AOL users to AOL about not being able to receive emails from Anglers' Net would help the cause

 

Tight lines,

 

Elton

[Newt]

Elton - our name for the ISP is more descriptive than yours. Spelled differently but pronounced the same.

 

AOHell

[davidP]

My wife cannot e-mail her father in the USA because they won't accept emails from our ISP because they claim it's 'open relay' (which I think means people can use it to do remote spamming). The reality is however that my ISP has huge numbers of checks in place to stop just that, but because they have chosen to go a different route to prevent it rather than what AOL have decided is the way to go my wife cannot contact her father. :mad:

[Leon Roskilly]

I got this from the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit:

 

We have difficulty sending emails to aol account holdres from our main

computer system.

 

!!!!!!

 

I've also had some others contact me, saying that emails they have sent me have bounced because of the large number of complaints from AOL members about emails originating from 'that server'.

 

Strange thing is, the next email gets through!

 

I suspect a glitch in their spam reporting system (AOL users can hit a Report Spam button).

 

Not sure if it applies only to broadband users, but AOL forced me to download the Microsoft patches to protect against the recent spate of worms, and then made me download and run McAfee's stinger to remove any nasties I'd been infected with.

 

I guess that their heart is in the right place!

 

Tight Lines - leon

[chesters1]

i think i brought it up regarding a chap who sent me an email regarding intrepid but i couldnt return it ,his isp i think banned all btopenword addresses lost a good contact there :mad:

[chesters1]

whoops a double post ,i was distracted by tea and crispy bacon roll

 

[ 10. September 2003, 10:30 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

[Leon Roskilly]

Seems that AOL can't be getting many queries on this, their Technical support agents don't seem to be particularly aware of a problem!

 

 

ChatAgentUK31: Welcome to Member Help Interactive. Please present your

question, and I will be with you in just a moment.

 

ChatAgentUK31: Thank you for calling in to Tech Chat!! I may be with some

other members at the moment, please state your query and I will be with you

as soon as possible :-)

 

FishSense: I'm getting an unacceptable number of contacts emailing me to say

that emails sent to me have been bounced by AOL.

FishSense: What's the problem and when will it be fixed pleas?

 

ChatAgentUK31: Can you tell me the email address of the sender?

 

FishSense: Not quickly, but different ISP's are involved. I had advice of a

problem from the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit!!

FishSense: I believe that the AOL error code is 524, if memory serves me well

 

ChatAgentUK31: Can you let me know the email address so that I may file a

report?

 

FishSense: Does this help?

FishSense: Subj: Fwd: FW: Invitation from Nick Mabey, Strategy Unit, Cabinet

Office Date: 09/09/2003 15:36:00 GMT Daylight Time From:

ept007a@hotmail.com To: fishsense@aol.com File: SULetterdone.doc

Dear Leon, We have difficulty sending emails to aol account holdres from our

main computer system. Please reply to me at ptoyne@article13.com Many

thanks, Paul From: "Paul Toyne" ptoyne@article13.cxm To:

ept007a@hotmail.cxm Subject: FW: Invitation from Nick Mabey, Strategy

Unit, Cabinet Office Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15

FishSense: ??

 

ChatAgentUK31: Can you tell me since when are you having this problem?

 

FishSense: For a couple of weeks I guess. I've only recently moved over to

V8.0 and Broadband

 

FishSense: Also this:

FishSense: As part of their plan for total world domination, AOL appear

to be completely blacklisting emails from various ISP's lately. As you will

see from the following thread, that includes the one that hosts this site:

http://forum.xcalibre.co.uk/showthread.php...79&referrerid=0 The

guys at xcalibre are on the

FishSense: ??

 

ChatAgentUK31: What version of AOL and Windows are you using?

 

FishSense: Windows XP Home edition and AOL 8.0 on Broadband connection

 

ChatAgentUK31: I have filed a report in this regard.Appropriate action will

be taken to solve your problem regarding the inability to receive emails

from this location.Please request the sender to send the emails again.If

your problem persists,do come back to chat again.I sincerely apologise for

the inconvenience caused to you by this.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Elton]

To get an idea of what AOL are up to, try here:

 

http://aolmailhell.com/

[MrWiggly]

I've heard about your crispy bacon rolls Chesters !!

 

[ 17. September 2003, 08:52 PM: Message edited by: MrWiggly ]