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Heads up to AOL members

Posted by charley on 6/27/2004, 10:38 pm
68.120.189.119

A task i've been working on is emailing invitations to Celebration 2004. This afternoon has been particularly frustrating. All of the emails I initially sent to AOL members were returned with the following message:
"Error 554 HVU:B1
• 554 HVU:B1
postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvub1.html
EXPLANATION:
There is at least one URL in your email that is generating substantial complaints from AOL members."
I contacted AOL and they told me that the email I was sending contained hyperlinks and would not be delivered.
I removed the hyperlinks to:
cbhs.freeservers.com
- the home page of this web site
and to:
cbhs.freeservers.com/PDF/c2004tf.PDF
- the ticket form, on this web site for Celebration 2004.
in addition, i had to remove the two email address links in the email.
if your an AOL member and wonder why you don't always get information about the CBAA functions in a timely manner it is most likely your email provider. i doubt if many points of contact will create separate documents for AOL members. there's just not enough time in the day.
if your an AOL member and don't want to receive emails from the point of contact for your class would you please let them know so they can remove your name from their email address distribution list.
another option is to create a 'free' email address at yahoo.com, hotmail.com, or (coming soon) google.com free email service. i use the yahoo.com as a public email. it's the one i give out to anyone. i can access it from any computer that's can access yahoo.com. the newest feature on yahoo's free email is the 2 gigabytes of storage space.
finally, what's facinating to me is that during the five years i was an AOL member that most of the junk/spam contained hyperlinks and still does today.
later,
charley