Tag archive: Charles Stiles

America Online announced today that qualified not-for-profit organizations will never have to pay to deliver their messages to AOL customers in a manner comparable to commercial paying AOL on a per-message basis to ensure their messages reach AOL members. “Our announcement today guarantees that every certified not-for-profit will get the same benefits as private-sector companies that have decided to utilize Goodmail's Certified… Read More

America Online is out today with their third annual top ten spam list as well as some numbers on how much spam their users had to put up with. This data reveals some interesting items about what AOL users are targeted with and how effective AOL's anti-spam efforts are. The top ten spam subject lines that AOL users received in 2005 are: Donald Trump Wants You – Please Respond (popular recognition) Double Standards New Product… Read More

This is the second year AOL has released such a list. The Top 10 list is based on spam reports forwarded to these teams by AOL members during the 2004 calendar year – much of it collected in the aggregate via use of the popular “Report Spam” button onAOL. “AOL members and all online consumers should make one of their New Year's resolutions a cleaner, less cluttered email inbox,” said Charles Stiles, Manager of… Read More

Dubious education offers, pharmaceuticals, body enhancing hormones, and shady finance-related offers ranked as the most widely recognized junk email subject lines of 2003 by AOL 'spamwatchers' protecting the service from spammers on behalf of its members. The AOL Postmaster team in northern Virginia has calculated the Top 10 most widely sent spam email subject lines – or 'headers' – on the AOL service in… Read More