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Any AOL Users Out There?
Written on Thursday, August 03, 2006 by That's Camping
Article Categories: Miscellaneous

AOL has recently opened their “gated garden” and allowing us non-members access to their site.

Today, I decided to sign up for a free AOL email account. AOL has a reputation as a horrendous nightmare for designers and web programmers since AOL (in their infinite wisdom) decides almost all mail is spam or blocks email from certain scripts all together.  I figured it would be a good way to test scripts.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I went to That’s Camping and signed up for updates list using my new AOL email address; everything seemed to work fine. I just need to receive the confirmation email to finalize my subscription. I looked in my AOL inbox, and nope, nothing. Kept hitting the new mail button...nada.

So, I checked the Spam folder...what a surprise (sarcasm added here), there is my confirmation email from That’s Camping. sigh. So, that means that most of the AOL users that try to subscribe to the updates list will probably not get their confirmation email unless they check their spam folder.

The confirmation email is needed to finalize the actual subscription so if the user doesn’t hit the link in the email, then they are not added to the updates list.

Sorry if I offended any of our visitors, but I really really really hate AOL.

For those that have tried to subscribe to our updates list using your AOL account, make sure to check the spam folder for the confirmation email.

Article Categories: Miscellaneous

Comments

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  1. I have the same problem with sympatico (Canada).  I booked a trip online to Margarita Island in the winter and the confirmation email and e-ticket was in my spam box!  So like you wrote, its good to check the “junkmail” with the regular.

    Posted by Marlene on 08/04/06

  2. The problem I saw with the AOL mail interface is that there is no “notation” that alerts the user that there is content in the spam folder.

    Most email applications will highlight the unread mail count for all folders, including a spam folder.

    I bet most newbie AOL users don’t even know what a spam folder is, and would just ignore it.

    Posted by That's Camping in the Northeast on 08/04/06
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