...or maybe Charlene...or both.
Dave White received this message from AOL:
Dear Member,
AOL has a Terms of Service agreement which provides community guidelines for online conduct. We want to inform you that we received a report regarding a violation of those guidelines. Here is the information we have placed on the account regarding this incident:
Date: 2009-02-11 19:18:21.0
Violation Clip: Subject: City council election
February 18, 5:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.
Salon Couture Pampering Night http://www.saloncouture.biz/
176 East Chicago Street, Elgin 60120
$25.00 Campaign Contribution
Come out and receive mini spa treatments such as massages, facials and manicures along with discounts on Aveda products. The first 25 people will also receive a $20 certificate towards a coloring.
Also, you are invited to attend our election night party.
February 24 and April 7, 6:30p.m. - 10:00p.m.
Mad Maggies Election Night Party http://www.madmaggies.net/
51 South Grove, Elgin 60120
We will be on the top floor. This is a kid friendly event.
Our Terms of Service agreement, which was presented during the sign up process, allows AOL to be informative, entertaining and, above all, fun for all of our Members. You can review that agreement by using Keyword: TOS or by going to the following AOL page:
http://help.aol.com/help/legal.do?kcp=memberagreement
Please be advised that further violations may result in closure of your AOL account(s).
Now, think for a minute about the tons of messages you get every week for Canadian prescriptions, fake watches, Nigerian bank accounts, body part enlargements, diet pills...and AOL is telling Dave he can't tell people about a candidate fundraiser!!!???
Of course, the key is that some opponent took offense to the message and contacted AOL.
It's nice to be noticed.
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Hm...I'm assuming he forwarded it only to people he knew. I'm wondering his guess as to who reported it as spam.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, he might be able to contact AOL and plead his case, saying he sent an e-mail to people he knows in "real life," and if they aren't "brave" enough to tell him to stop sending the emails and instead report them as spam, how does he know who to stop sending it to? Maybe they will share who reported it.
Dave has sent a request to AOL to determine the problem with the content. He hasn't heard back from them.
ReplyDeleteYou can't deal with AOL. They will release no information whatsoever on their complaints. The fact is, according to their TOS, you can have your account canceled for anything THEY deem inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteWhen you sign up for AOL, you're agreeing to live in their world, on their terms.
I went through an ordeal with their legal department which was very similar to this.
They canceled my account for a post on one of their boards which someone complained about.
Even after canceling my account though, they continued billing my American Express. American Express's reply? "Sorry, we can only stop the automatic billing by them, if they stop submitting the bills for payment.
Screw AOL. Get your own server or use YAHOO or Google.
Also look over your email addresses carefully.
You obviously have a troll in the bunch.