[CVRC] AOL Blocking ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service Messages

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:41:35 -0700

Dick et al,

I read this message with great interest.

Based on the amount of spam I have been getting via the ARRL email
forwarding service, I can't blame AOL (or any other ISP) from blocking
any and all mail being forwarded from the ARRL email servers. With the
popularity of AOL, their servers must be receiving thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands of emails, every day from the ARRl forwarding
servers.

I am currently receiving around 50 emails a day (and the daily total is
slowly growing) directly to [email protected] or as a BC or CC on some
other ham's arrl email address (all of which are then forwarded on to my
charter.net address) -- NONE of these 50 or so emails could be described
as anything other than blatant spam. I am in the process of
resubscribing and/or resetting all the places where I use the ARRL
service prepartory to ending my ARRL forwarding.

The ARRL email database has obviously been "harvested" (I'd like to
think that the ARRL did not sell my email address...) by spammers and
the service has essentially become totally useless.

Jack Riggsbee
K7AJR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Flanagan" <[email protected]>
To: "CVRC Reflector" <[email protected]>; "UNR Radio Pack"
<[email protected]>; "Washoe County ARES" <[email protected]>;
"RAMS Mail Reflector" <[email protected]>
Cc: <Nevada Section Officials :>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: [CVRC] AOL Blocking ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service Messages

| The following was just announced on the ARRL web site:
|
| AOL Blocking ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service Messages
|
| (Sep 11, 2003) -- On Monday, September 8, it came to ARRL's attention
that
| AOL was blocking e-mail sent to them via the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding
Service
| (@arrl.net addresses). ARRL immediately contacted AOL to explain the
| situation and was told that AOL would remove its block on mail from
the
| ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service server. AOL still has not resolved the
| situation, explaining that there is a "backlog" of work in their
network
| area. AOL representatives were unable to indicate specifically when
the
| situation would be rectified. We apologize for any inconvenience that
this
| situation has caused.
| --
| Dick Flanagan W6OLD NV SM
| E-mail: [email protected]
|
|
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