Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

AOL (and Yahoo as well as far as I can tell) have chosen to block almost all mail sent from BME to their subscribers. At first I thought it was related to sending from Mexico, but it appears to be an all-out block of all my mailservers (QOD replies even) as well as my personal mail from here — even if I log in to my server in California and send from there directly it's blocked. Here is the message that I get when I try and contact people on AOL. If you are on AOL and would like to receive things like your passwords for submissions, your IAM coupons, and so on, understand that AOL is actively blocking me from contacting you. Please complain to them directly as there's only so much I can do from here about it.

I have applied for their “bulk sender list” (and asked them to simply remove the block), but who knows how long that will take, although according to their TOS they will not permit the mail if they believe it is “vulgar” in nature, so who knows. I'll be surprised if they permit BME to contact AOL members.

My advice: cancel your account and be sure to explain to them why.

Now you understand a little more why I really don't care for the mainstream.