I Hate AOL users

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So I sent out an email to my registered users (all 50,000 of them) letting them know that I added a ton of new content to the site for 2 new subjects. No advertisement, no commercial purpose, etc. Instead of just hitting the unsubscribe link (which does work btw), they hit the 'report as spam' button.

Since I'm subscribed to the feedback loop, I go through and manually unsubscribe everyone that has reported the email as spam. When you unsubscribe someone, it sends them a confirmation email letting them know that they have been unsubscribed. Guess what they do... they mark that as spam too! Bastards are fucking up my complaint ratio!

/rant off
 


I had the same problem with one of my sites and Godaddy was gonna boot the site til I provided all the opt in info. It was a PITA.
 
Here is what happens to me --> AOL user enters their e-mail address to subscribe to a newsletter --> AOL users recieves the double opt-in message and clicks the confirmation link, optin in --> AOL user recieves the thank you for subscribing e-mail, marks it as spam.
 
Fucking idiots... I swear!

I wonder if it would be possible to create 100,000s of free AIM email addresses so that I could improve my complaint ratio with the AOL network. My complaint ratio is .41% (yes, I put the decimal point in the right spot) and that isnt good enough to be put on the their white list.
 
Andrew said:
Here is what happens to me --> AOL user enters their e-mail address to subscribe to a newsletter --> AOL users recieves the double opt-in message and clicks the confirmation link, optin in --> AOL user recieves the thank you for subscribing e-mail, marks it as spam.
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LOL!!! Sounds about right! AOL users are the geniuses of the internet. Right up there with WebTV users.

WebTV user goes to website --> wants to sign up --> can't because they don't know what email is --> end of problem.
 
SEO_Mike said:
LOL!!! Sounds about right! AOL users are the geniuses of the internet. Right up there with WebTV users.
WebTV user goes to website --> wants to sign up --> can't because they don't know what email is --> end of problem.
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Lmao... :D

When I think of AOL I think of getting your mailbox (regular mail, not email) bombarded weekly with those damn annoying Sign-up CD's they always sent out. At least they did when I lived in the U.S. some years ago. Do they still do this?
Talk about spam! The CDs were even too ugly to use for beer coasters.
 
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