Aol Bouncing List Subscribers

**Oneida** · March 2, 2004

I have a double opt-in subscriber list for people who want to be notified when new material is added to my site. That is the only list I have and most definitely is not spam. But AOL has started bouncing them today (along with some other ISPs that apparently use AOL's spam list) because, "The information presently available to AOL indicates this server is generating high volumes of member complaints from AOL's member base. Based on AOL's Unsolicited Bulk E-mail policy at http://www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html AOL may not accept further e-mail transactions from this server or domain."

I've never run into this before and wonder if someone else on server 46 has been sending spam. I've pasted in the full headers and e-mail below (the AOL member's name has been redacted) and would welcome any suggestions about how to deal with this.

Thanks,

Oneida

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A new entry has been posted at Earth Crash Earth Spirit:

ENTRY DATE: February 19, 2004

TITLE: Experts warn U.S. could be headed for an "unmitigated disaster" this spring if declining natural gas supplies and more cold weather lead to sharp price hikes and outright shortages, resulting in homes without heat and factories without fuel.

EXCERPT: According to the Christian Science Monitor, the United States is skating on the edge of another big jump in natural-gas prices this spring - perhaps even a shortage that, depending upon the weather and its severity, could leave residents shivering and cause some industrial customers to curtail operations. Analysts describe the situation with varying degrees of alarm, from "an unmitigated disaster" to "tight" on supplies. Last week, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke of his "chronic concern" about how a sharp spike in natural-gas prices would affect the economy.

Most people in the U.S. would quickly feel the effects of a severe shortage - and subsequent price hike. Natural-gas utilities, with 64 million customers in the U.S., provide 24 percent of all energy consumed. Their gas heats and cools millions of homes, and increasingly is burned to generate electricity. Natural gas is both a fuel and a feedstock for the nation's $460 billion chemical industry with its one million employees.

"The problem is awfully serious," says Matthew Simmons, head of Simmons & Co. in Houston, an investment bank specializing in the energy industry. "It's shaping up for an unmitigated disaster."

LINK: http://www.eces.org/articles/000818.php

Oneida Kincaid

Earth Crash Earth Spirit

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