That would be the wrong way to do it. I would probably not recommend
following James Burnett's advice.

Jason, here's what I recommend instead: Call the phone number in AOL's
domain registration. Work through the phone maze. You'll get to a human
who will take your details, and they'll have one of the spam/mail
blocking people call you back. It may take a bit of time to resolve, but
it is easily resolvable if you're willing to work through it. Be
prepared to articulate what you do and what you're sending, and how your
processes work. You might have to attest to it in writing.

A couple days ago, I sat two places down at the same table from the AOL
guy who the spam/mail blocking people work for. They're all good folks,
and even before I knew any of them, I was able to easily figure out how
to work through blocking issues with them.

Regards,
Al Iverson

"Burnett, James R." wrote:
>
> hahahaha, yes.  Good luck!!  I think it took us 2 weeks to get them to believe that we were a real business, not spammers, and that our client actually wanted the output.
>
> First step is to have your users complain.  AOL won't do anything if you tell them to remove them from their list.  You need to have them hear it from their cutomers.
>
> It sucks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Schellenberg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: AOL blocking list
>
> Hi all,
>
> It appears that AOL is blocking one of our lists from distribution to their
> members. Does anyone have any experience getting AOL to unblock a list?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jason

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