As we all know, AOL employees have "no idea from Adam" about Emailer. And did they ever prove it last week!
I receive tons of pornography on my "Community Leader" name. (I don't get too many scams anymore because scammers have learned that if sent to me, I deconstruct them and get them busted so a scam doesn't last long and then they can't really catch too many for their troubles...) I am sure the forum snerts have put my name on every list. This can not be helped. I run a forum, and so that name is vulnerable to anyone who might pop in to cull names for such reasons. I don't go into forums with any other name, and only go onto the AOL software to do my duties. Anyway, one particular porno spammer was very persistent and kept sending me SEVERAL ads and links to his pornography service, stating that this was a purely 100% opt-in list and that I had "subscribed and been verified". Yah right! He used AOL webmail, without question and was a real AOL address not faked. Aha, TOS time!!! So I TOSed the heck out of him, each time, forwarding the mail to AOL's TOS department and also doing the "unsubscribe" thing, which later, AOL said I SHOULD do, just in case someone subscribed me without my permission. Also, I maintain that any person who harasses me via email deserves an email back, warning them they have been reported and to leave me alone. Friday night, I was going onto the AOL software, which I have to do to perform my CL duties, and found my password had been reset! Long story short, from what I can tell by looking in my "sent" mail on the AOL software, there was no anomaly with passwords and such but that TOS employees who can not decipher Emailer mail, wrongly read the TOS reports from ME (using my Emailer) as coming from the SPAMMER about me, not the other way around! Consequently, I now have an erroneous TOS on my name for "sending unsolicited commercial email from my HOST name" a situation for which now my supervisor must escalate and try to have removed. The irony of the whole thing is, that the violation was not harrassing a member with unwanted email, or sending out pornography, but sending a commercial link to a member while on my volunteer name! Apparently, AOL is more concerned that you might be making money behind their backs than if you are sending nasty email to people! I asked the help desk when I called, what about this member? They are not out of the service for sending the PORNO in the first place? She informed me that there was little AOL could do to stop them from flooding the mailboxes with that stuff...and that we should just keep on reported it as UCE... UCE indeed! It has now been admitted (after I satisfied them that I was not compromised, and had no viruses on my system and that no one sent mail from my account without my permission) that most likely the TOS employee read the mail backward and they agreed that this often happens with mailers that are NOT the actual AOL software..... So my caution to all of you who use AOL with Emailer is, that when dealing with AOL's TOS department, for any reason, open the AOL software and do it from there!!! Meanwhile if there are other mailers that can pick up AOL software, what are they exactly? The new Netscape 6 I would assume.. Don't know of any other... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
