Charlie Wilson sez: >I am concerned that some of my e-mail is being identified as spam.
Along with what Tony said, I have a problem where my provider is flagged as a spammer. Why? Because a lot of the people that use my provider simply forward their email from there automatically to their AOL accounts. AOL sees a bunch of spam coming in and assumes it is coming from my provider rather than actually being forwarded from an email account to one of their customers and flags the provider as a spammer. Then, I can't send email to my clients that have AOL accounts. AOL puts them on a blacklist, and then I can't send mail to Comcast and a couple others that use the black list. My provider has argued with AOL tons of times but AOL refuses to change their scripts that check incoming email. And the saddest thing is I have to contact these clients and the problem is expanding to other providers who don't care but are too big to ignore -- so I'm probably going to have to move my email account and penalize my provider who really is doing nothing wrong. Short of changing your email to a provider that has a special relationship with the providers you need to contact, all you can do is wait until your provider gets off the black list. You could yell at your provider, and if they are kicking off real spammers or handling people who have had their computers compromised, they can't do much against the big companies. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
