LangaList Std Edition 2004-04-19 I was alerted to this problem by the Zazona emailing. This sort of thing is a plague across the net with numerous vendors doing a oiss-poor job of filtering then ending up as two-bit censors. It cold end up saving the small ISP or email provider such as the one I use at www.ctyme.com.

Sanchez at Zazona hints that an offshoring company that might be running some of these anti-spam systems may actually be on the lookout for ant-offshoring screeds then block the sender. Meanwhile Fred Langa is also concerned about some of these new practices since his newsletter is getting blocked too.

AOL’s mail system is just this side of insane. Not only does it read inside member emails for links that AOL doesn’t like, but— as we’ve reported before— if AOL members get a little lazy and block a newsletter like this one, instead of unsubscribing, AOL keeps track of the blocks. Last time I looked, if as few as 10 readers took the lazy way out of stopping a mailing, AOL would assume that the mail in question was spam. In my case, if just 10 AOL users out of 160,000 readers— that’s 0.00006 of my readers— took the lazy way off the list, all AOL subscribers would have their legitimate issues blocked for some time thereafter.