Printed here, with permission, my last communication from Pat at OpMale. She thinks it is beneficial for all to know what she has done thus far. Come on guys. Need HELP.
Thank you for e mailing me.. I am sending this letter to every opmale star Angel and others that have wished us luck if this e mail is not coming from
opmale1@aol.com please respond there or to
irishborn1@aol.com or if all else failes to
gritsla@tyler.net Pat
I spoke with the cancellation department 11-7-08 at aol 1 888 265 8008 because one of the zapped list leaders said they got their account back through them.
I am again being told ,as i have been told, with everybody that I talk to that i have had more than 10 complaints against my account. Last week end when it first happened it was over 100. They can't tell me who complained as its against the privacy act. Because of the fact that 4 list owners got zapped the same day as i did on November 1 We know it has to be the spam filter that aol has installed. 1 list owner as of tonight got her status back and the rest of us have not yet. I want everybody to remember mine is a Subscription List and no body gets on the list without first asking.. IN file we do have name address city state and a short bio to protect our selves that comes to us as e mail.
I have spoken with the office of the ceo of time warner and aol and everybody tells me I have violated my Contract by sending Bulk mail. I was on the Aol White List to send bulk mail and have been on it since 1997 even thought its showing I have been on it for a year. Each time you have a problem and call AOL Cat (community action team) its like you just signed up. The problem can be your email is not going through, you need your pass word reset etc.
there is no guarantee, at any time that I will stay on the white team for bulk mail as the AOL contract says Its against their rules and regulations to send Bulk mail and its at the discretion of AOL CAT if they keep you on or take you off. This I have never been told since 1997. That was the reason I went to the white list so I could send bulk email, news, newsletters, penpal lists and all the other lists I send to the troops and the angels. According to the notation I CAN'T never be put on the white list again. Normally its a six month period.
I was told I had to write to the main Cat department in Oklahoma. Humm guess that is the home office of aol now.
AOL
attn cat
po box 700012
oklahoma city okla 73107
THEY refused to give me a phone number for them/
but still no guarantee that I will be able to get our bulk status back
They had the file noted who all i called at time warner( Both CEO's, John Millers office (michelle) in 703-265-1000 ) Both Legal departments, ( NY, CT, and VA, Media Department, ( Mr Nicholas Graham 703-265-1746, customer care, Postmaster ( (703) 265-6942,
703-265-4670 and 1-888-212-5537 ) this was at NY and Va and who knows where else it goes, where I had to call long distance. The several calls to the 1-888-265-3733 cat departments in India and us, Tech service, and customer care and aol as that had to be reported but it still does no good. CAT has finally say so. Now this is interesting.. One place tells me that Time warner does Own Aol but its a entity standing on its own, Another place tells me AOL owns time warner. I don't think anybody knows who owns who. Every call that was made I did explain the program to them and that I did not send SPAM. I don't think AOL cares for the Miltary or what happens to them.
In my travels with my phone calls. I was told the Media department could do nothing about it all they cared about was how we were treated. Thats amazing. I was treated rudley by several departments, had my bulk account taken away for no fault of my own and they don't care. The Ceo of AOL has nothing to do with any complaints and that the postmaster was the one that handled it. The Postmaster says its not their problem. WELL who's problem is it? I don't think AOL cares about our military or what this program is trying to do.
So it looks like unless I can find another server where we can do the BULK e mail opmale star may be NO MORE.. If this has happened where an opmale star ANGEL has REPORTED me for SPAM it could happen again and Rita could also be reported and have her account taken way. Everybody is told in news letters, special notices, in the welcome letter, " if you want off the list just ask". I do tell them it could take as high as two weeks to be taken off depending upon the volume of e mail i am receiving at that time.
I hope the ones that complained instead of telling us to take them off are HAPPY. But I still think its their new filters.
If you have AOL 9.0 and this is the only place you can see it, there is a section called surge of the Internet
GO TO AOL KEYWORD....LOOK UNDER SPAM AND PULL UP SPAM: SCOURGE OF THE INTERNET...THERE IS OPMALE1
...UNDER COLUMN ON RIGHT CLICK ON.it .. Ihave been told that it shows I have been spamming since 1997 and how many hundreds of thousand SPAM e mails I have sent.
I do not Consider what I send spam
So now you say what happens?
I guess I could go to the Media, fox news, associated press, Oprah etc and raise some stink. I was advised that if the opmale star angels really wanted this program to go then it would be up to them to start making phone calls, letters, e mails etc and fighting not only for me but also for the program. I have done all I can do and IM tired of fighting. My Aol account is also on a thin line right now and they could cut it off.
I have set up an yahoo account
opmale1@yahoo.com but its a matter of time if the person or persons that is on my lists decides they want to complain again could do the same thing to me at YAHOO. Without knowing who they are, I can't take them off.
OK Angels its in your hands.
I found this web search interesting if anybody wants to check it out
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Nicholas+Graham+aol&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt Luvs ya
Cobra Mom
Pat