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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: problems with AOL/CompuServ
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:05:15 -0800 (PST)


Hello all! While I'm still able to email AOL, I wanted to send a few thoughts
to my AOL and cs.com subscribers.

Despite all the problems with AOL and CompuServ blocking mail that is not
actually spam, they are becoming more and more agressive in blocking "unwanted"
mail. Although that can definitely be a good thing, it's a very bad thing if
you are subscribed to ANY lists not on AOL or CompuServ servers. An example
this, Dick Eastman who write the highly acclaimed genealogy newsletter
"Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" at EOGN.com has put a statement on his
website about his address being blocked and making it so that anyone on AOL or
CompuServ will no longer receive email from him. Rootsweb has already had some
problems.

I want to make a recommendation for anyone signed up to my lists (or any other
for that matter) to sign up for a free account at http://mail.yahoo.com or
http://mail.google.com or the many other places you can get a free account and
use that account for all your email lists and non-AOL contacts. This way, you
can be sure of always getting your email. I don't have the google mail, but I
have 3 accounts with yahoo and they are really good at catching spam and when
something does get through the filter, if you mark it as spam, anything like
that sent in the future will be marked as spam, but an added bonus is that
unlike AOL, you can look at the stuff marked as spam by yahoo and make sure
nothing legitimate was marked as spam.

I just want to make sure everyone signed up to my lists actually gets the email
they have signed up to get.

Good luck all in your genealogy!

Erin


Erin Bradford

List manager
http://www.ncalhn.org
ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties
http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

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