If you have a forwarding alias IE: arrl.net, yahoo.com, etc, by all means unsubscribe your AOL address and resubscribe under the alias.
There is one major problem with this approach. Let me give you an example. Let's assume there is a someone subscribed to DX-NEWS as [EMAIL PROTECTED] They now subscribe to DX-NEWS as [EMAIL PROTECTED] which in turn forwards mail back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That person again reports the message as SPAM. The originator of the message is still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not only has the problem not been resolved, there is now no way to isolate the offending party by ISP. It that happens the list will have bo be closed down.
I know it's unfair but I don't make the rules, I only have to live by the AOL rules. They have created a system they hope will run without human intervention. Trying to communicate with a human at AOL concerning this problem is virtually impossible. One of the aspects of their policy is that it only looks at the total number of complaints, not the complaints as a percentage of total mail sent to AOL. I person running a single account mail servers is in the same class as I am with many hundreds of mail accounts.
Don't shoot the messenger. I feel more frustrated than you do that a so called DXer continues their reporting policy despite repeated request to stop.
Urb, W2DEC
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