Restore the old spam settings. Now we only have one setting.
First you took away stationery and vast choice of fonts, emojis, etc. Then you changed how mail is set up (from new, old, sent, spam, deleted mail to current style) and the Spam settings from numerous choices to only one (blocked). it seems the longer we continue to PAY for AOL Gold, the less we are getting for our money. I see by the Feedback that I'm far from alone in feeling AOL Gold does not seem "golden" to your PAYING customers.
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Hey,
Wanted to let you all know that you now have the ability to block mail from unwanted senders. Please click the link here to learn more: https://help.aol.com/articles/keep-your-inbox-clean-by-blocking-unwanted-mail-in-aol-desktop-gold
Sincerely,
AOL Product Support
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john
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do your job and recognize spam addresses and act
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Anonymous
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For months, I have received **@usccb.org without incident. Now, it winds up in my spam folder. I entered it in my address book, but it still winds up in the spam folder.
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Eddie
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Well over 100 spams a day. Ridiculous !!
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Anonymous
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I notice you have had alot of complaints about blocking unwanted mail. You pay us lip service but you do nothing to stop it or allow us a means to block it. You must really be hard up for revenue since you allow this to flood our computers.
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Anonymous
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Not sure why my post was marked reviewed and closed. Today I have already received 36 spam emails from the cortextoxy.online domain. The fact that these emails go into the spam folder is not a good or complete solution. Since you acknowledge this is spam, why don't you just block the domain?
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JBG
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I have been with AOL for about 25 years.
I had tons of addresses blocked in my block spam folder.They have all disappeared. Why? Now I am starting to get a lot of spam every day.
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Anonymous
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I guess aol is so hard up for ad revenue they refuse to allow us to block spam anymore. I wondered why they took this option away from us now i know. Hey aol i do not need to know how to get an erection or go take a ****. your
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Anonymous
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Getting mail with offensive words. How do I stop? Different addresses so can't list by address. Used to have a way to stop mail containing certain language... unable to locate now
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Anonymous
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I've been reporting a bug to AOL because I have followed the instructions for blocking spam emails even getting into my spam folder and never get a recommendation or reply that AOL DESKTOP GOLD is working on it! Most of these spam emails have this address: @ cortextoxy.online. They originate from choicesok,org.uk. And when you unsubscribe or block, this choicesok.org.uk just sends more from other topics with @conrtextoxy.online. This is absurd. If you unsubscribe and/or block address, then why do I continue to receive 30-40 a day...lots of repeats. It seems like revenge! Anyone else experience this? AOL REPORT A BUG AND AOL FEEDBACK ARE TOTALLY USELESS
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Eddie
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Over 100 SPAM Emails so far today. Friends on AOL don't get them. Most are from Admin XXXXX. I can't open and individually block each one. I just delete all but worry something important might be buried in all the smoke. Why am I so lucky?
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Anonymous
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Why are not the SPAM controls working when I take the time to type in the offending addresses and yet they keep on coming, especially the extremely obnoxious ones. What am I paying for in Desktop Gold???
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anonymous
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Saw that there is a cap about how many Spam addresses that you can block. I'm not near that amount but yet I cannot save any new addresses to my list. There is no "Save" button. You cannot right click on the address and block it either. I want the old Spam Controls restored with the ability to actually USE them. Tired of all this junk in my Spam box. I used to have NONE because I blocked them all! Much better use of your system to block them all when they just clutter things up. Have complained before, and it looks like others are also, but you don't respond or fix this problem.
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Ron Bond
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automatically deplete scam emails
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Imogene Boseman
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Can't AOL be decent and reach out to improve this product any more?
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Imogene Boseman
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I have had AOL gold since it came out and hate it. Does the McAfee not work at all any more? I have 173 pieces of SPAM today!!!! You can't reach a tech person any more, but they do not fail to draw money from me every month!!
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smitty
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how about blocking mail with phony e-mail sender addresses
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Harold
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Blocking SPAM by using prefix (everything to left of @ including @) instead of complete address.
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Anonymous
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Auto block all addresses that we say are spam...
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cmango
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Somehow, the AOL spam filter can identify multiple spam email addresses, such as Version@choice.girtin.net, version@spondulicks.org, Version@suit.hygeist.org.
If those emails can be filtered out of general mail without having to use a wild card *, then why can't that same process be used to BLOCK them altogether, without just sending them to the spam folder, where I can do nothing to prevent their continuous traffic? -
Anonymous
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Go back to the old way BEFORE gold. It kept the list of email addresses that I blocked, Now they get deleted some how. Because I see a lot of old addresses coming back. I was told they stay deleted WRONG ANSWER. You need a program that stops emails that you can't reply to.