Re: mail.inc / Links/ AOL

There are two threads running at the moment about AOL links and I have heard of other problems at the moment with links in AOL browsers. Is it possible that AOL's latest incarnation of their browser is broken? Cheers, Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "David P. Schwartz" <davids@desertigloo.com> To: "Chris Doyle" <gaur@planetveggie.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:48 Subject: Re: [PHP] mail.inc / Links/ AOL > Hmm, this is very interesting! I had a friend who had an opt-in e-zine that he > sent out every couple of weeks to people. About 18 months ago, people started > complaining that they must have missed the latest issue and wanted to know what > was up. About half of his subscribers were on AOL and suddenly none of them > were getting the newsletter. He eventually had to fold the business because his > circulation dropped so much and his orders dried up. > > I'd try sending some emails by hand. > > Are these coming back exactly as shown? eg., with ..."-AOL on them? If so, > that tells me they could very well be coming from the firewall rather than the > users. Try sending some of the users an email directly and see if they even got > the original emails. If these folks are really opt-ins, then contact a small > sample to act as your "eyeballs" to help you monitor problems and set up some > practices to detect changes in delivery status. > > I've heard there's an email address somewhere at AOL that people with opt-in > newsletters can contact to notify them of their service so the AOL anti-spam > policies don't dump the letters. It can take a while, though, from what I've > heard. > > Just curious: how many on your total list, and how many have AOL addresses? > > -David > > ps: I don't think this is PHP related. We might want to continue this > off-list. I have something that might help you anyway that I'd like to pursue. > > Chris Doyle wrote: > > > Ok, im sending out a newsletter with it. Here are some of the responces from > > the people using AOL. ie. whoever@AOL.com > > > > also all unsubscribe requests have been AOL users. > > > > thanx > > > > "the links don't appear on my screen...so I send it to > > whoever@earthlink.net & check it there..."- AOL > > > > "No such link exists so take me off your mailing list"-AOL > > > > "Thank you for your interesting newsletter. I could not get any results > > when > > I clicked on the blue letters, I received a response that the site did not > > exist. What is wrong?? Can you fix it?? > > Hope to hear from you. "-AOL > > > > "Your articles are very interesting... pls send more. > > Why are some links not working?"-HOTMAL > > > > _______________________________ > > > > This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the > > sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is > > strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please > > contact the sender and delete all copies. Opinions, conclusions or other > > information expressed or contained in this email are not given or endorsed > > by the sender unless otherwise affirmed independently by the sender. > > > > _________________________________ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David P. Schwartz" <davids@desertigloo.com> > > To: "Chris Doyle" <gaur@planetveggie.com> > > Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:54 AM > > Subject: Re: [PHP] mail.inc / Links/ AOL > > > > > When you say "none of the links work", can you be a little bit more > > specific? > > > Like, what exactly happens? Your computer shuts off or something like > > that? :-) > > > > > > I've heard that AOL has a strange definition of "customer service" where > > their > > > firewall dumps emails that it thinks might be junk mail, and they don't > > bother > > > to tell anybody. Maybe the reconfigured it to "bounce" the emails instead > > of > > > delete them so you at least get something back for your trouble. > > > > > > I've heard that this filtering is based on a number of factors, including > > > specific email domains (eg., hotmail.com, yahoo.com), and getting a batch > > of > > > emails submitted within some small time window that have matching Subject > > > headers and/or content. > > > > > > -David > > > > > > Chris Doyle wrote: > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > Ok, here the deal, I am using the library mail.inc, sending out email > > (HTML > > > > formatt), It is all working fine, execpt for anyone using AOL. For them > > none > > > > of the links work. I haven't been able to muck around with it for I dont > > > > have an AOL account. > > > > > > > > Has anyone ran into this problem before? If you have, please reply. > > > > > > > > Thanx, > > > > CD > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >