I have no idea if the spam filter problem hit ALL AOLers or only SOME of us--but this was very noticeable today. I normally find about 12-20 emails in my spam folder each morning when I first logon and a few that slip through into my inbox. This morning and throughout the afternoon (until just now) ALL spams came to the inbox and NONE went to the spam folder--so something was definitely amiss. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 4:21:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Joan, My Spam folder only had 1 message in it this morning. Shortly thereafter it had 3 more. However I had several spam emails in my inbox. In fact, lately the increase of spam in my inbox is significant. Sharon **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Keep your fingers crossed--perhaps the spam filters are fixed -- I just had ONE spam land in the spam folder--the first that has done so today. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 4:16:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message THANKS JOAN....THOUGHT IT WAS JUS ME AGAIN..NOT GETTING THE BAD THINGS INTO THE SPAM FOLDER...THANKS TOM T **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

We have to be VERY careful of the spam currently in our inbox. I have been receiving a lot, but when I open each one, the sender has forged a real or fake rootsweb address as the sender. Therefore, we have to delete it instead of reporting it as spam. Ruth In a message dated 10/3/2008 2:21:37 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Joan, My Spam folder only had 1 message in it this morning. Shortly thereafter it had 3 more. However I had several spam emails in my inbox. In fact, lately the increase of spam in my inbox is significant. Sharon ------------------------------------- In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:53:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Speaking of the AOL spam folder...is anyone else finding that the spam folder is not working today? I think the filters must be on the blink or something as my spam folder was empty this morning and I had about 30 spam emails that would have normally been there in my inbox. Nothing has filtered to the spam folder so far all day. So I'm thinking it is temporarily on the blink at least mine is). Joan **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001) ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Joan, My Spam folder only had 1 message in it this morning. Shortly thereafter it had 3 more. However I had several spam emails in my inbox. In fact, lately the increase of spam in my inbox is significant. Sharon ------------------------------------- In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:53:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Speaking of the AOL spam folder...is anyone else finding that the spam folder is not working today? I think the filters must be on the blink or something as my spam folder was empty this morning and I had about 30 spam emails that would have normally been there in my inbox. Nothing has filtered to the spam folder so far all day. So I'm thinking it is temporarily on the blink at least mine is). Joan **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:53:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Speaking of the AOL spam folder...is anyone else finding that the spam folder is not working today? I think the filters must be on the blink or something as my spam folder was empty this morning and I had about 30 spam emails that would have normally been there in my inbox. Nothing has filtered to the spam folder so far all day. So I'm thinking it is temporarily on the blink at least mine is). Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 11:39:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Have you checked your AOL's spam folder? I find the answer to a lot of mystery missing mail in there. Be sure to click on "this is not spam" to aid in keeping it out of there in the future. Woody **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001) ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message THANKS JOAN....THOUGHT IT WAS JUS ME AGAIN..NOT GETTING THE BAD THINGS INTO THE SPAM FOLDER...THANKS TOM T **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Patricia, Are you using the FORWARD or the REPLY?? AOL's Forward feature is quirky beyond belief. I never use it. If you are actually using the Forward feature, try using the Reply feature instead. 1) Highlight what you want to send to her from the email you have received from another person. 2) Click on the Reply. 3) Next Highlight the email address in the TO: field and replace it with her email address instead. 4) THEN send it. If your friend was on AOL, then the Forward feature would work great. Sharon -------------------------------------- In a message dated 10/3/2008 12:58:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: While everyone is asking how to fix problems, maybe someone can tell me what is wrong with my friend's email. She is not on AOL. If I send her and original email, it goes through...no problem. If I get a message from someone else and try to forward it to her, it comes back every time. If she sends me a message and I click on reply to answer her, the message also comes back to me. So the only email she can receive or send are just when we open an original form and send a message. Have you ever heard of that? I have asked all kinds of people, including some computer techs, and no answer. Patricia **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

No--I just think the spam filter isn't working right now. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 2:31:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Could changes be afoot with AOL, and it's not just elimination of personal web page and FTP?? Just asking. **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

In a message dated 10/3/2008 2:31:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Spam is showing up in my Every setting I have is the same as it has been. I figured it was just AOL forcing the new AIM stuff on us. My Version 9.0 optimized is not longer that version. I had a problem a few weeks ago and it would not load. So I tried to use the disc to reinstall and copy the old to it but AOL wouldn't let me. It said I had a newer version than what was on the disc. **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Hello List In a message dated 3/10/08 9:20:02 AM, [email protected] writes: > Problem with AOL mail > No messages in my Spam folder, but Spam is showing up in my New Mail. Suggestions for a possible problem with inability to receive mail. Check the following filters in addition to the Sender: Words and Phrases filter Content filter. These can be found in the Mail and Spam Controls About using Internet Explorer on A(America)O(out of)L(Luck) :-) Could be the version of IE. I don't use this browser on AOL. My experience is that it conflicts with AOL's software. I like OPERA browser, and I think they have a Windows version. Lots of good features. You might want to check it out Could changes be afoot with AOL, and it's not just elimination of personal web page and FTP?? Just asking. After all is said and done I still go with AOL. ALL ISPs have their quirks and work arounds. Ann ************** New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

1.) did one of you accidentally block the other? 2.) did one of you accidentally hit "spam" on the other's email? 3.) is her ISP blocking AOL ? -- blacklist 4.) does the forward include many new addresses, so ISPs might think it is spam? Judy On 10/3/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > While everyone is asking how to fix problems, maybe someone can tell me what > is wrong with my friend's email. She is not on AOL. If I send her and > original email, it goes through...no problem. If I get a message from someone > else and try to forward it to her, it comes back every time. If she sends me a > message and I click on reply to answer her, the message also comes back to > me. So the only email she can receive or send are just when we open an > original form and send a message. Have you ever heard of that? I have asked all > kinds of people, including some computer techs, and no answer. > > Patricia >

Patricia- This sounds like some spam setting she's set on her end--but I'd need to see a copy of the bounce you get back when you try to email her a reply or a forwarded message. The bounce should give a clue to the reason the message isn't being delivered. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 12:58:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: While everyone is asking how to fix problems, maybe someone can tell me what is wrong with my friend's email. She is not on AOL. If I send her and original email, it goes through...no problem. If I get a message from someone else and try to forward it to her, it comes back every time. If she sends me a message and I click on reply to answer her, the message also comes back to me. So the only email she can receive or send are just when we open an original form and send a message. Have you ever heard of that? I have asked all kinds of people, including some computer techs, and no answer. Patricia **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

While everyone is asking how to fix problems, maybe someone can tell me what is wrong with my friend's email. She is not on AOL. If I send her and original email, it goes through...no problem. If I get a message from someone else and try to forward it to her, it comes back every time. If she sends me a message and I click on reply to answer her, the message also comes back to me. So the only email she can receive or send are just when we open an original form and send a message. Have you ever heard of that? I have asked all kinds of people, including some computer techs, and no answer. Patricia **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Jan- I'm not sure why you would get the "image challenge" thing if you were already logged into your AOL account. It sounds as if you were being directed or challenged by Google's CAPTCHA program used by some websites (but I've never seen AOL use it) to verify that a real live PERSON and not a BOT was trying to send the messages. I DO understand that Google's CAPTCHA program was broken yesterday--I overheard the techies at RootsWeb mentioning that. So the problem could have actually been a Google issue that impinged on your AOL capabilities--but I'm not sure why. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 12:14:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I tried to send an e-mail - either in AOL's software or on their web site in Internet Explorer, a pop-up came up from AOL - called an "image challenge". <snip> **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

In a message dated 10/3/2008 11:39:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: checked your AOL's spam folder? I always check it Woody so I can delete the junk that sometimes accumulates there; however the last few days spam has been showing up in my regular mail. **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)

Friday, October 3, 2008, 11:39:10 AM, you wrote: Bac> Have you checked your AOL's spam folder? I find the answer to a lot of Bac> mystery missing mail in there. Be sure to click on "this is not spam" to aid in Bac> keeping it out of there in the future. Bac> Bac> Woody I do not use AOL for my e-mail. I use The Bat which is a very good E-Mail Client. Lloyd -- ____________________________________________________________ Give back to your community. Click here to start a new career as a Police officer. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mAL7bQMXMjIKZKakyFVM6LdRzrrDISDoaOJ9dToLuQckXOp/

Hello AOLers! I don't know if their problem is the same as mine was yesterday, but I need to tell all of you what happened to me, just in case anybody has the same problem. I am a computer dealer out of my home, so I sent the following information to my AOL customers: >>Just wanted to let you know that I have been having a problem sending e-mails through my AOL software, as well as going on AOL's web site (_http://www.aol.com/_ (http://www.aol.com/) ) through Internet Explorer, for the last 2 days. I tried to send an e-mail - either in AOL's software or on their web site in Internet Explorer, a pop-up came up from AOL - called an "image challenge". They ask you to click on a link in the box, then that takes you to a web site that asks you to read & type the scrambled letters, then click "OK". I tried this (in my AOL software) and it let me do that once, but I still couldn't send e-mails without getting this "Image Challenge" box again and again. I could send e-mails through my 2nd AOL e-mail address, but not through my main (original) AOL E-Mail address - the one that you first set up, when you installed AOL. Sometimes, I could even send an e-mail to myself or to other people with an AOL e-mail address, but not to people with other Internet Providers than AOL. When I first called AOL, a tech told me they have had many other calls on this same problem and that they thought it was on their server. They told me to wait 12 hours and they should have my problem fixed - well, that didn't happen. I called a 2nd time and still nothing. The 3rd time, I decided to go online with Live Help from AOL. I always seem to have better luck with these techs. The tech had me to NOT use my AOL software and DO NOT go through AOL''s Internet Explorer to try sending an e-mail. BUT, instead, 'for the moment', have my AOL software open, and use this to go to AOL's web site. In other words, within AOL, go to _http://www.aol.com/_ (http://www.aol.com/) , to access my e-mail. Once I was there, when I tried sending an e-mail and the "image challenge" box would come up, I could then click on the link and read and type the scrambled letters and click on "OK". After doing this, I was finally able to send e-mails once again, in all 3 places - within AOL software, in AOL's web site - within AOL and in AOL's web site - through Internet Explorer. So, the only way to get this all working again, was to go to AOL's web site, within AOL's software. Really strange, I know, but it worked! Yeah!<< Hope this may help some of you but hope nobody else has to deal with this crazy problem! But, maybe this idea of going through AOL to get to AOL's web site, might help in other cases, as well, who knows? Have a great day! Jan Scott - IL In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:33:31 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:11:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: not receiving AOLers Mail It's not just AOLers Mail; I have friends that are also AOL that have been trying to email me for a week and it never got through. They contacted me and I gave them another address on another host and received it there. Both my friends and I pay, so I don't know the problem. **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)

When a person doesn't RECEIVE mail that we know RootsWeb (or another service) is sending out--it is difficult to know the reason for non-receipt unless there are bounces coming back to the sender. Since the current mailing list software doesn't send bounces to the list admins until/unless 5 days' worth of bounces have past. So I can't tell you whether list mail to you is bouncing and I can't tell you the reason for any bounces or non-receipt of list mail at this time. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:11:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello List, I am sorry that I have not responded to your mail concerning the problem I had getting connected to AOL, but the truth is, I haven't received any mail from AOLers since before I had my problem. I just assumed that AOLers was down for some reason until I just went to the archives and found my message and your responses. I wonder why I am not receiving mail, I must still be subscribed since my mail goes through. As for my problem with AOL, it was Zone Alarm Firewall v.8 was blocking aol. After disabling it I could connect. I had just downloaded and installed ZA 8 earlier on the same day I had the problem. I finally uninstalled ZA 8 and reinstalled ZA 7. Could someone tell me why I am not receiving AOLers Mail. The only Rootsweb sites I am receiving mail from is RootsMagic and Computers. I have checked my junk mail box and there is not any in there from Aolers. Lloyd **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)

Speaking of the AOL spam folder...is anyone else finding that the spam folder is not working today? I think the filters must be on the blink or something as my spam folder was empty this morning and I had about 30 spam emails that would have normally been there in my inbox. Nothing has filtered to the spam folder so far all day. So I'm thinking it is temporarily on the blink at least mine is). Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 11:39:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Have you checked your AOL's spam folder? I find the answer to a lot of mystery missing mail in there. Be sure to click on "this is not spam" to aid in keeping it out of there in the future. Woody **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)

Have you checked your AOL's spam folder? I find the answer to a lot of mystery missing mail in there. Be sure to click on "this is not spam" to aid in keeping it out of there in the future. Woody ==================== [email protected] writes: [email protected] writes: not receiving AOLers Mail It's not just AOLers Mail; I have friends that are also AOL that have been trying to email me for a week and it never got through. They contacted me and I gave them another address on another host and received it there. Both my friends and I pay, so I don't know the problem. **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)

In a message dated 10/3/2008 10:11:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: not receiving AOLers Mail It's not just AOLers Mail; I have friends that are also AOL that have been trying to email me for a week and it never got through. They contacted me and I gave them another address on another host and received it there. Both my friends and I pay, so I don't know the problem. **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)