For the past 4 months, I have always listed my websites in my AOL profile as I had seen many many other people do. Yesterday morning, my AOL account was locked due to TOS violation. I called AOL as directed to and found out that my account had been locked because the TOS violation was that I listed my websites in my AOL member profile.... that is considered advertising and is a violation. Ok I politely told the AOL rep that I would remove them although my profile had been wiped clean already by AOL. As soon as I logged on, I added my websites again to my AOL profile.
The second thing is that AOL's spam filters now bounce emails from my forums to AOL members. I would say 1,000 of my members are from AOL since that is where I mostly advertise my site in chat rooms though parking in chatrooms and having my away message advertise my site. Anytime anyone gets a notification from my forums that is sent to an AOL email address, I get the bounced email saying that "the URL stated in the email is one associated with a high amount of spam and will not be sent to the members AOL account"
I had used the email members several times over the past few months so they think I am spamming.
I have now banned AOL email addresses even though I still advertise on AOL and the members joining since are using alternate addresses.
The second thing is that AOL's spam filters now bounce emails from my forums to AOL members. I would say 1,000 of my members are from AOL since that is where I mostly advertise my site in chat rooms though parking in chatrooms and having my away message advertise my site. Anytime anyone gets a notification from my forums that is sent to an AOL email address, I get the bounced email saying that "the URL stated in the email is one associated with a high amount of spam and will not be sent to the members AOL account"
I had used the email members several times over the past few months so they think I am spamming.
I have now banned AOL email addresses even though I still advertise on AOL and the members joining since are using alternate addresses.
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