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Is that why I am getting tons of multiple emails?  I am not on AOL either.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Teeter" <johnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:59 PM
Subject: [RC] OT: all you AOL people


> I give up. I'm going to have to unsubscribe all the AOL addresses from 
> ridecamp and ridecamp digest - I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but AOL is 
> totally (and I do mean totally) beyond in their policy re: blocking 
> external domains.
>
> I will do this mass un-subscribe late tonight. it will take effect b/f I 
> head out in the morning. There are @550 of you who will be affected. 
> Sadly, if you come from aol, neither steph nor I will be able to answer 
> your email from the endurance.net domain.
>
> They tell me that in 24 hours the block will be removed and that at any 
> time, if some one of their aolBoundeMailSlaveISPcustomers clicks a "this 
> is spam" button for a ridecamp post it will be blocked again for 24 hours.
>
> In the mean-time there are a few thousand pieces of email sitting on my 
> server re-trying their mindless 5 times for 3 hours before they bounce 
> back to ridecamp-owners email address.
>
> AOL should be drained of paying customers until it folds in on it's own 
> under funded pension plan.
>
> This (the normal conspiracy theory) is the path that the mega email hubs 
> are taking us down - the balkanization of the net may not be far behind. 
> pretty soon, yahoo, msn, aol, earthlink, and google will only accept mail 
> from each other (or one of their clients domains which they serve) -- just 
> TOTALLY bogus -- support you local ISPs dump the big comm companies - do 
> wireless (free) mesh networks .... sigh
>
> (p.s. all you aol people will not get this mail - if you have a friend on 
> aol, let them know what's happening ... but then again, friends don't let 
> friends do aol ...)
>
> jt.
>
>
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