* If you are on AOL, it's time to get off * Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 09:35:27 -0500 (CDT) -------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:52:22 +0200 To: richard@cyberjournal.org From: "PEERS: WantXToXKnow.Xinfo List" Subject: AOL Blocks All Emails Which Mention [our] Website Dear friends, AOL is now engaging in blatant censorship by blocking all emails which include the term "WantXToXKnow.Xinfo." [without the Xs -rkm] To verify this, simply send an email to any friend who uses AOL for their email service and type WantXToXKnow.Xinfo anywhere in the message. The email will bounce back to you. As a result of this, all of the almost 300 subscribers to our email list who use aol.com can no longer receive our information-packed newsletters. -------- Thanks Peers, I tested sending such a message to an AOL account, and promptly received this reply: From: MAILER-DAEMON... Date: Apr 7, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: Undeliverable mail: Re: Fwd: ... To: rkm@quaylargo.com Failed to deliver to 'xxx@aol.com' SMTP module(domain aol.com) reports: message text rejected by mailin-01.mx.aol.com: 554 TRANSACTION FAILED --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cj-unsubscribe@cyberjournal.org For additional commands, e-mail: cj-help@cyberjournal.org