Hi; I have done a lot of work on this with AOL and have spent several hours with the postmaster for AOL.
1: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/tools/fbl.html What AOL does is simply look at the volume of your email versus how many is reported as SPAM. Also - AOL is not all that savvy in fighting spam. We had a newsletter blocked from delivery since it had a space in the URL which was naturally decoded. Instead of having a weight for each item the email was totally blocked. I spent 1/2 hour with the postmaster and finally after we deleted the URL the email went through. It is that bad!.. In general also people that use AOL (for the most part) are not that technically savvy. I had one person that was reporting our receipts as spam because he thought .. What is the difference between that and trash.. So make sure your emails are carefully worded and are clean. Hope this helps... Regards, Kami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matrosity Tech Support Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 150K mailing list I checked about a dozen emails in the list against those in their orders table in their database and that all matched. These guys do $70K in business a month according to their shopping cart so I believe the list to be valid. My understanding was that if you sent a ton of email into say AOL that they would catch that and block them? Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince Iannelli Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] 150K mailing list If it was inappropriate an inappropriate question, I think that you would have heard more than silence... I would think that to avoid getting blacklisted, then you have to make sure this isn't spam, as the volume itself shouldn't cause any problems if it is going to legit subscribers/customers. 150K is a big list though. Are they a large enough site so that it makes sense that they could generate a list that big? Do you see any mention of them or previous incarnations of their companies in any of the spam blacklists? Have you previewed the message that they are going to send out? On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 02:34PM, Matrosity Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Was this not an appropriate question to as in this forum or something?? > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matrosity >Tech Support >Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 7:38 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [IMail Forum] 150K mailing list > > >We're about to have a client that has a mailing list with 150K users on >it. I've checked their database and these appear to all be previous >customers of theirs. The concern I have is will we run the risk of >getting blacklisted sending out their newsletter and how could we avoid >that? > >Thanks in advance, > >Bill > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > ------------ Vincent Iannelli, MD Keep Kids Healthy - free pediatric parenting advice -----> http://www.keepkidshealthy.com Your Guide to Pediatrics -----> http://pediatrics.about.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
