* If you are on AOL, it’s time to get off *

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2007-04-08

Richard Moore

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 03:52:22 +0200
To: •••@••.•••
From: "PEERS: WantXToXKnow.Xinfo List"
Subject: AOL Blocks All Emails Which Mention [our] Website


Dear friends,

AOL is now engaging in blatant censorship by blocking all emails 
which include the term "WantXToXKnow.Xinfo." [without the Xs -rkm] To 
verify this, simply send an email to any friend who uses AOL for 
their email service and type WantXToXKnow.Xinfo anywhere in the 
message. The email will bounce back to you. As a result of this, all 
of the almost 300 subscribers to our email list who use aol.com can 
no longer receive our information-packed newsletters.

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Thanks Peers,

I tested sending such a message to an AOL account, and promptly 
received this reply:

         From: MAILER-DAEMON...
         Date: Apr 7, 2007 8:51 AM
         Subject: Undeliverable mail: Re: Fwd: ...
         To: •••@••.•••

         Failed to deliver to '•••@••.•••'
         SMTP module(domain aol.com) reports:
         message text rejected by mailin-01.mx.aol.com:
         554 TRANSACTION FAILED

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