This amuses me

[ericcoleman]

I work for a big company. I tried to send cryndalae email from work yesterday.

AOL has blocked the company ... for spam.

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[also-huey.livejournal.com]

If you, or anybody else at that big company cares, you can troubleshoot it with the directions given at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/selfhelp/index.html (http://postmaster.info.aol.com/selfhelp/index.html) and create a feedback loop with AOL to prevent it from happening again at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/fbl/index.html (http://postmaster.info.aol.com/fbl/index.html), and if you can't figure that out, the AOL postmaster team can be contacted at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/contact/index.html (http://postmaster.info.aol.com/contact/index.html).

[ericcoleman]

I actually knew that. A friend had to go through it to get her email address unblocked. One of the reasons I now have gmail and my own domain.

This is a multi-million dollar global company. AOL has blocked it. Makes me laugh.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I have a couple good friends in AOL's antispam team. AOL's blocking is semi-automated and triggered partially by end-user complaints, so the block is probably a symptom of some larger problem - either a compromised machine in the network that's being used to send spam, or an over-zealous marketing department sending email to people who don't necessarially want it. Either way, it's probably something that ought to be looked into, even if 'multi-million dollar global company' IT department can tell itself "we don't need to send mail to AOL users".

You were poached from tanac's friends list.

[ericcoleman]

Oh ... and hi ... how did you wander in here ???