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Old 05-19-2010, 03:18 PM
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OK, finally I am sick of it. AOL is now blocked from registration on OB. AOL is notorious for blocking forum emails...esp the e-mail confirmation messages. We get daily requests from people with AOL accounts complaining that they cannot post, because they never got a confirmation message...spam is off, etc... It's not you, it's AOL deleting your message and not even allowing it to go to your spam folder.

On top of that, if I send an announcement to everyone, it takes 1 or 2 AOL people to say that I sent spam for the whole server to be blocked from sending email to AOL...so now any user from AOL cannot get a notification that their thread got a reply...No thanks! Ditch AOL, it's junk! Use Gmail.

OK....I feel better now
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Old 05-19-2010, 03:41 PM
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AOL is twisted! Why do they go stick their nose in peoples emails and decide what's junk or not? I have to say that hotmail is not much better sometimes, I had countless incoming or outgoing emails which disappeared into a black hole, never to be seen again. Switched over to gmail and never looked back.

When new people register for OB, is it written somewhere about the problems with AOL?
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Old 05-19-2010, 04:03 PM
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Gmail is the best
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Old 05-19-2010, 04:23 PM
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Wow! What a pain. I am glad that I registered using Yahoo now. I was tempted to use my Compuserve Account who was bought out by AOL shortly after I switched from AOL.

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Old 05-19-2010, 05:49 PM
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If we are already registered with an aol account do we need to change it??
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Old 05-19-2010, 06:50 PM
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Wow! What a pain. I am glad that I registered using Yahoo now. I was tempted to use my Compuserve Account who was bought out by AOL shortly after I switched from AOL.
yahoo has problems too, and will sometimes block the confirmation e-mails, which would prevent you from registering. also, yahoo will sometimes silently delete messages it sees as spam (without sending them to your spam folder).
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yahoo has problems too, and will sometimes block the confirmation e-mails, which would prevent you from registering. also, yahoo will sometimes silently delete messages it sees as spam (without sending them to your spam folder).
Kip, Thanks for the heads up. I have not noticed this happening yet but will be on the look out for it.
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Old 05-19-2010, 09:28 PM
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OK, finally I am sick of it. AOL is now blocked from registration on OB. AOL is notorious for blocking forum emails...esp the e-mail confirmation messages. We get daily requests from people with AOL accounts complaining that they cannot post, because they never got a confirmation message...spam is off, etc... It's not you, it's AOL deleting your message and not even allowing it to go to your spam folder.

On top of that, if I send an announcement to everyone, it takes 1 or 2 AOL people to say that I sent spam for the whole server to be blocked from sending email to AOL...so now any user from AOL cannot get a notification that their thread got a reply...No thanks! Ditch AOL, it's junk! Use Gmail.

OK....I feel better now
I agree with you on that...... I call it aohell.
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Old 05-19-2010, 10:21 PM
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I'll add my voice to the recommendation to use gmail. I have 4 email accounts- one for each of my 2 different clinic settings for patient communications, my personal gmail account for friends (and OB, by the way), and another for medical articles that I want to label in different ways. Works for me!
My only wish is that they would allow you to search within a label group for another group- ie- Friends, then orchids. But other than that, it's great.
I'm seriously considering canceling my Facebook account.
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