**NOTICE FOR AOL USERS**

[hilary]

AOL, for reasons best known to themselves, have decided to bounce all email sent to AOL addresses from the onlineClarity domain.

Since they may penalise any domain that sends a lot of emails that bounce, I'm turning off email notification from this forum to AOL addresses. Please feel free to edit your profile and turn it on again after a few days to experiment - but if you still get no messages, please come back and turn it off!

If you didn't receive the last newsletter, this will explain it - but you can still read it online (http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/e-answers45.html).

(AOL say they do this because they have received spam complaints - since I've never sent spam in my life, that seems unlikely. My web host tells me there is no rhyme or reason to AOL's behaviour, and you just have to wait for them to change their mind.)

I will try to send private messages to those most affected - if I can find an email account that is good enough for AOL...

What, me, bitter?

[hilary]

Hi Kevin,

No, I don't think that's connected. Could you tell me what operating system you use, and what page(s) of the site this occurs on? (There are actually no pages of this site hosted on a secure server, so this message is a bit weird.)

For AOL people: you will miss the next newsletter, unless they've 'unblocked' me by then, installments of free and paid ecourses, notification from the ICC and any and all personal correspondence. If you could write to AOL and tell them how you feel about them deleting the email you asked to receive, I would be very grateful. They might take more notice of you than of me!

Thank you!

[val]

Hilary...

We're talking about AOHell here. They're really bad and, if you ask me, really not very business wise. They tried to corner the market by keeping their clients out of the internet and in the AOL framework as much as possible in the early days. They tried to provide them with everything they "needed" and made access to the rest of the internet very difficult. Their "portals" to the internet were often impassable. It's in the ports they use.

For that reason, AOL users had to go through all kinds of reconfiguring to use the 3D interactive program I used to work in. I once made an avatar for my world called Scarlet Letter. She was a sexy brunette in a sexy tight white short dress, and on her chest emblazened in big bold scarlett letters was...AOL.

Good luck with your battle with them.

Love,

Val

[hilary]

Thanks, Val. I have read about other webmasters having this kind of trouble, and my web host (who are very good) have despaired of them, I think. I read of one woman whose entire service operated by email, falsely accused by them and still struggling to sort this out. But if they are not business-wise, how come they have such a massive chunk of the market??

Anyway - any customers of theirs who feel like asking for your emails from Clarity to be allowed through...

Thanks, Kevin. I found the tag on my home page that was probably causing the message to pop up, and removed it. Could you tell me if the problem is solved?

[cheiron]

Hi Hilary

Yup - page loads quickly and with no warning message.

Hope you sort Goliath out... they've never been a friend to me (I am an X customer of theirs)

All the best

--Kevin