[Alsfastball] Attention all aol.com subscribers

[Al Doran]

On November 10, 2004, we advised our AOL.COM subscribers of our on going 
problems sending to them via our connection to high speed via Sympatico.ca 
and reminded them that they will only receive some updates as we have time, 
using our slow speed dial up connection to Allstream.net

Today, November 16, we sent out three such emails to our lists of aol.com 
subscribers and two of those messages were blocked by the idiots who run 
aol.com. They claim we have exceeded our volume of email to their subscribers.

 From this point forward there will be little or no email sent to our 
AOL.COM subscribers until they can clear up the problem with the company 
they choose to do business with.

AOL Truly Sucks!




Our note on Nov 10:


We have reduced the number of aol.com subscribers to well below the 120 
mark we had a year ago, about the time the brain trust at aol.com started 
blocking our email.

We have however not convinced everyone that aol.com is absolutely the worst 
ISP we have ever encountered, even though subscribers are walking away in 
droves and moving to a real ISP.

We still cannot send email from our fastball list through our normal home 
office connection using Sympatico.ca, the bigots who run aol.com think that 
anything from Canada must be spam and they block us.  So a few times a 
week, we save up the most important looking email news and we connect to a 
very slow dial up connection using our Allstream.net account.

That is why our loyal subscribers who are still stuck with aol.com only get 
their email in short bursts a couple of times a week.

We do not always have the time to do this so its time to take the step of 
officially declaring aol.com as a rouge ISP and banning them from our 
subscriber list.  We WILL continue to send some email to our existing 
aol.com subscribers a couple of times a week, if we have time, for now at 
least.

We will NOT however add any new aol.com subscribers to the list.  We will 
encourage any who ask to join to read the archives for now but to seriously 
think about getting a real ISP connection. Both hotmail.com and yahoo.com 
now have much larger incoming file space and that is always an option for 
those poor folks stuck with aol.com

For now, we will accept postings from aol.com subscribers however we cannot 
guarantee how long this will last.

If the bigots at aol.com would get off their collective fat 
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maximus  and fix the problem they have had for the past year (stop blocking 
mail from sympatico.ca) we will seriously consider returning aol.com to our 
normal subscriber data base.

thanks

Al



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