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Re: going off-line

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From: Dan Espen
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:28
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David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> writes:

> On 26/02/2018 01:56, John Levine wrote:
>> In article <p6uge4$jbf$6...@dont-email.me>,
>> Dan Espen  <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Precisely.
>>>
>>> It's quite easy to have your AOL email forwarded to a more
>>> useful GMAIL account.  Just look in your AOL settings.
>>> A bonus, GMAIL is way better about filtering SPAM.
>>
>> If you want to read your mail with Gmail, you're better off leaving your
>> AOL account alone and telling Gmail to collect it using POP3.  That avoids
>> mysterious disappeance when AOL's and Gmail's spam filtering disagree.
>>
>> By the way, AOL's spam filtering these days is pretty good because it's
>> actually Yahoo's spam filtering.
>
>
> IMHO its also pretty good at blocking legitimate e-mail. I still have
> no idea why e-mail from our local branch on the campaign fails to get
> to our secretary's AOL mail box.

Most often it's because they are spammers.

-- 
Dan Espen
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From: Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: going off-line
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