AOL Making a list.

[Retired Fly Boy]

Since post, AOL Making A List. Do you guys think it best to avoid escorts with AOL E mail? When I contact an escort with an AOL address it takes days for a reply. I wonder if someone at AOL reads it first, or is the escort just slow to reply? In some cases I never get any reply. What gives?

[Guest ncm2169]

Hey RFB. :o

 

Despite all the AOL "problems" discussed here, I've been using my AOL email to contact escorts for well over 2 years, as well as contacting escorts who have AOL email addys, and I've never had a problem. }(

 

That said, I still wouldn't advise escorts to use AOL for their escort email, if only because the spam filters can obviously fuck up their ability to receive certain email if they don't know how to manipulate their AOL features.

 

Steve Case and Time-Warner may not like our conversations, but I do think they have better things to do than reading our email. x(

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

AOL Response Time

 

Based on the information in the "return path" portion of the e-mails I receive from clients (or others), there does not appear to be any delay. The return path information shows you who sent the e-mail, where from, when it was sent, and so forth. I have also sent e-mails to myself from both my ISP account and from my Yahoo account and only noticed a very slight delay.

 

You can make any number of suppositions here. It may simply be that the majority of the escorts you may be writing too are taking a few days to respond, not a few days to actually receive your e-mail.

 

It may also be that AOL is blocking e-mail from your server. There is repeated evidence that MSN's servers have been compromised and used for spam purposes and for that reason, AOL and other companies have blocked e-mail that comes from MSN and HOTMAIL domains.

 

But to answer your question, I do not believe that there is any substantive reason for you to believe your e-mail to AOL recipients is being actual read by a person and/or that delivery is delayed for that or any other reason. If you have other reasons for not contacting AOL based escorts, then you should do so.

[HooBoy]

RE: AOL Response Time

 

I ran an experiment with Rick Munroe, testing AOL's alleged monitoring of email.

 

AOL *is* scanning the contents of email -- I am talking from the BODY of the letter, not just the TO, FROM and SUBJECT lines or the internal headers.

 

One can dismiss it by saying they are looking for evidence of spam, but I have never trusted that company so I do not know what kind of information database they are compiling. And at a premium price, to boot.

[Guest HOTnySTUDRYAN]

RE: AOL Response Time

 

I always answer my emails quickly, unless I"m out of town. And I've never once been told anyone has had a problem contacting me. - RYAN

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Privacy Expectations And Body Text

 

More than half of the spam I get (and presumably the spam most AOL members also receive) has fairly innocent subject lines: "problems in chat room" or "fwd: pics" or "new pics" or "hey" or "what's going on" to pick out several from today's fresh crop of spam. You can tell it is spam because you get a number of e-mails which might say "hey."

 

You also get a number of e-mails with no subject at all. So, of course, spam filters need to scan (which is different than having a human eye open and read) e-mails. I have no desire to defend AOL, I do not disagree with much of what is stated here negatively about the firm and its practices, but what AOL's filtering software is doing is no different than what is being done by Microsoft with MSN e-mail or Hot Mail or what is being done by Yahoo with their e-mail.

 

If anyone has an expectation of complete privacy in their e-mail, they are sadly mistaken. Whether their e-mail travels through an ISP such as Earthlink, or through a service such as Yahoo, the only way that you can expect complete privacy would be encryption software. When e-mail travels throughout the world wide web, it is essentially the same thing as a postcard traveling through a variety of post offices, where any number of "eyes" can rest upon, scan or even read it at will.