{"id":354,"date":"2006-08-28T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T10:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/28\/aol-users-drive-me-nuts\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T10:42:31","slug":"aol-users-drive-me-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/28\/aol-users-drive-me-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL users drive me nuts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people signup for mailing lists and then report them as spam?\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIts insane.\u00c2\u00a0 You know whats worse? People who get *RECEIPT* e-mails<br \/>\nconfirming credit card transactions that they have made\u00c2\u00a0 and marking<br \/>\nthose as spam. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some limited reports via spam cop, but almost 99.99% of the<br \/>\ntime, these crimes against intelligence are commited by AOL users.\u00c2\u00a0 Or<br \/>\nat least AOL is the only organization that has ever bother blacklisting<br \/>\nme because of it.\u00c2\u00a0 ? \u00c2\u00a0 The e-mails are *always* 1 time shots sent out<br \/>\nto confirm signups<br \/>\nor receipts for payment \/ deposits.\u00c2\u00a0 It is beyond ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whats worse though, the monkeys who report us or the ISPs<br \/>\nwho bother listening to them and relaying the message on to us.\u00c2\u00a0 ISPs<br \/>\nso scared these days of being on a blacklist that they will almost<br \/>\ncaiter to any ass clown who says &#8220;site X spammed me, pull them<br \/>\noffline!&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 This sheer stupidity.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ll actually ask you to stop.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nStop what? Allowing AOL users to access services<\/p>\n<p>? <\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/rant&gt;<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:right;\">technorati tags:<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/aol\" rel=\"tag\">aol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rant\" rel=\"tag\">rant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/spam\" rel=\"tag\">spam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tos\" rel=\"tag\">tos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rbl\" rel=\"tag\">rbl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blacklists\" rel=\"tag\">blacklists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people signup for mailing lists and then report them as spam?\u00c2\u00a0 Its insane.\u00c2\u00a0 You know whats worse? People who get *RECEIPT* e-mails confirming credit card transactions that they have made\u00c2\u00a0 and marking those as spam. We&#8217;ve had some limited reports via spam cop, but almost 99.99% of the time, these crimes against intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fonz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}