Roadsmith
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posted on January 13, 2004 09:34:53 AM new
I've been trying to REPLY to messages from people who use AOL, and suddenly in the last 24 hours messages are bouncing like mad. What gives? When we reply, shouldn't it go to the sender fairly smoothly? I've even tried altering the title line and no dice.
I know there's no way to fix this, but I'd be comforted if I knew it was also happening to others.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 13, 2004 10:02:39 AM new
i am on aol,i heard aol can block emails sent from certain internet service provider.
who is your provider?
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glassgrl
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posted on January 13, 2004 10:19:29 AM new
my comcast service is bouncing my own emails.
I can hit reply and it goes through, but if I type in an address or use my address book, the email is either returned or is lost in the black hole. I only discovered this last week when I asked my in law why they didn't answer my email. She said "what email"? I sent it three more times and those never went through either.
I just tried to send an email and it bounced back, but when I called on the phone, they said it arrived.
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shamoy
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posted on January 13, 2004 12:10:18 PM new
Yep, me too. Received an email from a woman, sent back reply, bounced back.....sent out another email instantly...so far it has not came back yet. If it does I guess I will pull the contact info and call her.
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ebayvet
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posted on January 13, 2004 01:49:04 PM new
It is really bad, and there isn't much to be done. Right now I am with comcast too, and I have not been experiencing problems, but my previous domain was tagged and would not let me send messages to AOL. It may get to the point where I have to run ebay through my aol account...we'll see...
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Roadsmith
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posted on January 13, 2004 03:23:29 PM new
Stopwhining: My provider is Easyfeed.com. Is there a way to find out which are automatically blocked by aol? This hasn't happened until yesterday, so I'm hoping it's just a glitch in aol's system (among the many glitches they have!).
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"I have resolved to allow my friends their peculiarities." -- Samuel Johnson
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sparkz
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posted on January 13, 2004 07:06:49 PM new
Roadsmith...It probably isn't a glitch. AOL has never made a secret of blocking incoming emails from domains that harbor spammers. This comes up about every two weeks or so. The problem is, this technique has been so successful in forceing other ISP's to clean up their act, that many are following suit. Anyone who considers email to be more than 75% successful in delivery is living in a fantasy world. Two years ago, I took out a Yahoo account and whenever I have a customer from certain ISP's win an auction, they will automatically get an EOA from both my AOL and Yahoo account. If a customer is not on my dirty dozen list and I don't get a response from my AOL eoa in 3 days I will send one from Yahoo. As last resort, I will try to contact through "Send this auction to a friend". The next step is NPB.
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stonecold613
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posted on January 14, 2004 08:39:50 PM new
This is simply an AOL problem. They are blocking so many e-mails without regards to where they are coming from. I don't even use my ISP provided e-mails and run into this problem all the time.
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sparkz
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posted on January 14, 2004 09:13:41 PM new
Actually it's not strictly an AOL problem. That wannabee isp that adopted the Earthlink label happens to be the biggest single cause of disappearing emails on the internet. This is common knowledge and has been for a couple of years. They simply will not police their site and flush out the spammer links. If they would clean up their sleazy act and merge with a real isp, a lot of this problem would disappear overnight.
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throughhiker
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posted on January 15, 2004 08:49:21 AM new
Sparkz,
I have Earthlink. Are you saying the the reason that my messages never get to my AOL bidders is the fault of Earthlink? Wonder why all the other isps receive them fine.
In my opinion this is reason number 843 why NOT to use AOL
Don
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stopwhining
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posted on January 15, 2004 09:06:03 AM new
i dont remember where i read this,but some internet service provider will allow its members to only accept mail from certain providers,and with a name like easyfeed.com,how many people know it exists??
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deur1
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posted on January 15, 2004 10:02:04 AM new
posted on January 14, 2004 09:13:41 PM
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Actually it's not strictly an AOL problem. That wannabee isp that adopted the Earthlink label happens to be the biggest single cause of disappearing emails on the internet.
Sparkz,
is Earthlink like AOL a nerve wracking mess?
LOL, I have AOL and have had it with all the email problems!! Some emails do not even land in the spam folder,they just disintegrate in cyperland.
I WAS thinking about changing to EARTHLINK but is that a bad ideal?? I have DSL and want to keep it ..WHAT TO DO ? WHAT TO DO??
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stopwhining
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posted on January 15, 2004 10:09:40 AM new
i have aol cable and i am not thrilled ,consider i am paying 10 bucks more than others.
earthlink is laying off 1300 people worldwide,i dont know if this is going to affect their service??
my local phone company offers dsl earthlink etc.
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sparkz
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posted on January 15, 2004 10:10:31 AM new
Earthlink has historically spent a few days each month on AOL's blocked domain list. It's the only way AOL can get them to shut down some of the major spam operations that seem to pop up on their domain from time to time. The emails don't bounce back to alert the sender of a problem, they just disappear, which I feel is wrong on AOL's part. Legitimate users should be informed of any current fued between domains. This practice used to be almost exclusively between AOL and Earthlink, but others are using it at times now also. That's the reason it's a good idea to have an alternate Email account so you can resend a notice if you don't receive a prompt reply to the first one.
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