"Thanks to the use of the "Report Spam" button, AOL has an unbroken record of success in dozens of lawsuits against some of the nation's most prolific spammers.
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Oh, Christ. That fucking "Report Spam" button. I admin some mailing lists and have nothing but problems with stupid fucking AOLers and their stupid fucking "Report Spam" button.
We're talking invitation-only mailing lists that you have to beg to get on, get sponsored by a senior member and then get voted on by all members. It's definitely not spam. But AOL 9.0 Sphincterized (or whatever the fuck they call it) has the "Delete" and "Report Spam" buttons right next to each other and even the smartest AOLer (if you can say that without laughing) can't seem to figure out which one to click on. Plus, AOL has decided on some extremely low thresholds, so as few as two complaints resulted in getting me labled as a spammer. Because of this, AOL has already blacklisted the listserver's IP address twice, and each time it took me hours of whining and begging on the phone to get it un-blacklisted. And after spending all this time explaining this to AOL T.S., they refuse to tell me who the AOLer who's complaining is so I can fix the problem and unsubscribe them.
And you wouldn't believe the hatemail I get from the AOLers - like I'm to blame for their gross stupidity. After going through this for the second time, I informed the list that the next blacklist would be uncontested and all AOLers would therefore be effectively unsubscribed, so tough shit.
From the early 90's right up until today - AOLers are still the biggest fucktards on the net.