AOL Sets Record. Blocks 1 Billion Spam Emails In A Day.
 

Beginning of the end?

Dear Member:

We recently announced that AOL blocked 1 billion spam e-mails in a day. We're doing this because you told us how much you hate spam, and we couldn't have done this if you weren't helping us by continuing to use the "Report Spam" button. Nothing we do is more important than listening to the people who make AOL what it is -- our members. We recently asked you for your opinion on how we can improve AOL. The response was terrific, and we're working harder than ever to address the issues that our members care about the most.

When it comes to spam, we hear you. All of us at AOL are outraged by the number of junk e-mails we get on a daily basis -- we get the same amount and the same kind of spam that you do. Most of all, we are outraged that our kids are being exposed to vile porn spam online.

We are fed up with spam and we HATE it as much as you do!

At AOL, spam is public enemy No. 1.

The funny thing is nobody spams more than aol.

Unless you yourself e-mailed them asking for the SPAM to stop, isn't that e-mail actually SPAM also?

We get loads of e-mails from AOL members who request their log in details from our script and don't ever get the automated e-mails with their username/password. I guess those count as spam too. How does their blocking work? It's not just IP addresses - do they have keyword blocking or something too?

Wasn't an email. News on aol. But no you opt-in to receiving mail when you join aol and you can turn any aol spam off.

I have no idea but I was worried about my opt-in lists and join4free confirms also. Seems if a few people report your email as spam they block you from the system. Really shitty setup actually but spammers brought it on all of us. If I get in a chatroom for 8 hours or so I can expect 200 spams that day and 100 the next etc. FUCKING SPAMMERS. :ak47:

fuck AOL

I'd fuck a goat 24 hours straight before ever using AOL hehe

bingo...guy smart you are mmmm

word!:321GFY

They block in a few ways. One is that they have a link filter. That's why spammers who send from the net use links like http://redir.yahoo.com/3902ur/http://hotanal.biz. You can probably get them to whitelist your links.

That's only if the MX server actually accepts mail from you. If you send big volumes of similar messages, the MX server will eventually blacklist your IP and it'll actually tell you if you log the data between your smtp server and the MX.

The majority of spam you get on AOL now is from internal mailers. AOL has no filtering from AOL addresses, so a good internal mailer is a gold mine. There's a few handfuls of people who have these nowadays(starts with d ends with ankcash) and they've been known to be able to make over $150k in a day between a few of them. With those kinds of numbers, can you really blame them?

i got 3 aol discs in the mail today.

:glugglug

Hey i do that for fun, are you trying to say that would be a baaaaaad experience?

Cashmaster must have had 3 accounts :1orglaugh

Isn't $150k $150 000.00?

So dankcash is making over $4.6 million a month spamming AOL?
Yeah, sure....

:1orglaugh

addmittedly, I have held an aol acct since 95.

it has been awhile.

hahah

Wow, and it only took them 8 years to do it too!
:winkwink:

riiiight

Not every day, it's just one day they altogether pulled in that much. Supposedly it was a hardcore spamfest.

When people first started making winsock invoke mailers and webmailers though it wasn't uncommon for a single person to be able to make $3k in a single day. Those things can mail extremely fast and the clickthrough rate is huge because AOL's killed almost all other external spam, the conversion rate is great because there's no proof these people have ever even seen a TGP, nor are half of them smart enough to use a search engine. Keep in mind this INCLUDED rebills so they weren't all new customers. From what I've seen though AOL customers rebill very often. I used to be able to spam one day, get about 15 signups and 30 days later 8 of them would rebill. AOL only keeps mail for 2 weeks or something by default too, so they have no way to easily get their transaction info.

Who can help me get my 500,000 AOL opt-in mails thru their net?

I would be happy to.

Lensman,

icq me sometime. 8042030.

You must use the force.............

:)