AOL is scanning INSIDE your emails, blocking any with "unapproved" content

The LangaList ^ | March 22, 2004 | Fred Langa

[Stoat]

Anyone wishing to unsubscribe from AOL, or recommend unsubscribing to their friends, may wish to look at

www.thelist.com

and also

www.dslreports.com

These sites allow you to locate available ISP's in your geographic area and compare them by features, service and price. You can also view user comments about the services.

[martin_fierro]

[SunStar]

Solution? Stop using AOL. A fast and easy fix.

[observer5]

Anyone using AOL deserves no better...

[mountaineer]

I signed up for one of AOL's free trial offers, just because we were going on vacation and couldn't use our internet provider where we were going. Now, they won't believe me when I say I want to cancel it. I've written two letters, following the directions on AOL's website, and they still won't kill the account. I expect to be billed any day now. Sounds like consumer fraud, at the least, to me.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

AOL is a fraudulent
Organization. I wonder why anyone
Likes Them.

Stop
Using That stupid
Company. Let them outsource to
Kenya, for all I care.
STAY AWAY FROM AOL!
!

[cmsgop]

Happend to me too, On my third call I lost control on some poor dude, it worked though.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Call Clark Howard before you do anyything...

[Redcloak]

Try getting a real ISP. Problem solved.

[NRA2BFree]

I dumped AOL 6 years ago after 2 miserable years with them. As far as I*m concerned they*re worthless. I had to buy a new computer after I left them. I could never recommend them.

[Ramius]

All anti-spam and anti-virus utilities look "inside" at the content of the message. If it didn't it would be useless.

AOL was a great thing, back in the days before the WWW caught on. I had a five digit member number for AOL. It is true now, though, that they strain for relevance in the age of the WWW. AOL will continue to decline for the next five to ten years, and then quietly slip away...

[annyokie]

Got that right.

[Stoat]

Mountaineer, I've heard MANY, MANY identical complaints...people sign up for AOL and then they are prevented from unsubscribing, and billed endlessly.

Perhaps a class-action suit is in order?

You have my utmost, sincere sympathies and I wish you the best of luck in dealing with this issue.

You may wish to consider looking at

www.thelist.com

and

www.dslreports.com

to find another internet provider in your area.

I wish that I could do more than offer you my sympathies and good wishes...this is a terrible situation you are in. Best of luck to you.

[AAABEST]

AOL is an internet horror show on many levels. It's designed to ensnare and addict technical idiots.

Stay far away from it.

[mountaineer]

Thanks - we have a provider at home, through my husband's employer. Needless to say, I'll be going the Wi-Fi route as soon as possible.

The last time I called AOL a few days ago, I blew up and slammed the phone down, then wrote my second letter demanding to be cancelled and threatening to file a complaint with the attorney general consumer fraud unit (ha! I don't even know if my state has one).

[mountaineer]

Who dat?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I'm just having a bit of fun...

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Oops... I was thinking you were looking at my other post. You don't know who Clark Howard is?

[Sgt_Schultze]

Call your bank. Tell them you have terminated service with AOL. Inform them that AOL no longer has authorization to automatically bill your account each month. Instruct them to immediately decline any further transactions from AOL.

[Mears]

MY six months od AOL's free trial offer is almost over. Glad I caught this post.