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by Anonymous User on Thu Aug 09, 2007 at 02:04:23 PM PDT

I've tangled with AOL and it's customers before. The word "frustrating" doesn't cover it. I've often felt AOL is a big company which has simply never really understood the Internet from the beginning, and refuses enlightenment. They don't know how to fight spam, and they refuse to restrain their own spammers. I seem to recall some of the more active anti-spam sysadmins refer to AOL as "block on sight" -- add them to your internal blocklist.

Bad enough AOL doesn't understand the Net, nor business ethics, but they do their best to keep their users from understanding the Net. The reader you reference is following a remedy with a long history. I can't count how many times I've seen fan sites with warnings to AOL users. [jehurst (at) operamail (dot) com]

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