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by sstraw on Wed Aug 15, 2007 at 08:29:39 AM PDT

I'm another admin at the site in question.

1. It's a bunch of discussion lists, on automotive technical topics. It isn't advertising, it isn't a compiled newsletter. We are quite well versed in what is and what isn't spam.

2. To sign up, you go through the process on the website, and then have to CONFIRM the code sent to you via email. A athird party might be able to harrass you by repeatedly trying to sign you up for something, but they cannot actually sign you up unless they have access to your mailbox to get the confirmation code and complete the process.

3. In case you're confused, the "free ads" which was mentioned at the tail of the first paragraph (I did not compose the gripe) refers to a classified ads parts wanted/for sale area of the site which people have to deliberatley express an interest in.

The bulk of our problem appears to be with nitwits who think that AOL's "block this sender" or whatever is the appropriate way to exit a discussion list, and the fact that AOL doesn't report the address of the users doing this - I mean, if they're going to report to us that there's a problem, why not give us the ONE thing we need to fix it: the address of the idiot that should be blacklisted from our site?

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