Do you subscribe to the Writer’s Weekly email newsletter with an AOL email address? If so, you will want to check out this email I got today…
Effective immediately, WritersWeekly.com will no longer send our newsletter toany AOL email address (aol.com, netscape.net, netscape.com, cs.com, orcompuserve.com).
If you would like to remain on our list, please reply with a non-AOL emailaddress where we can send the newsletter.
Here is why we are doing this:
For at least two years now we’ve struggled with AOL to get our newsletter through to subscribers who have asked to receive it. AOL, seemingly at random,blocks our newsletters with no explanation.
But what finally tipped the scale was the newsletter getting reported to our ISP this weekend as “spam” by an AOL subscriber. Apparently there are some AOL members who use the “report this as spam” button on their email program as a lazy man’s way of unsubscribing from a list. They don’t seem to realize the chain of events that get set into motion when that button gets pressed, and the headaches that it causes us publishers who are just sending out a newsletter that these people requested in the first place.
So, again, if you want to remain on the list, email me directly with an alternate, non-AOL, email address.
best,
richard and angela
writersweekly.com
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