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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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.
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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.
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Tom Allen
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My email account has exploded with email. I used to have a keyword function that minimized what I have now. In fact, it fixed my problem. I need to have that keyword function back or I may have to go to some other host. Why was it taken away without telling us up front? Please put this function back.
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lovey
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I have sent in many comments, which have gone unadressed, and have voted on many others. I'm curious how long does it take any or all of you at AOL to make changes??? All you see at the bottom of most comments is "GATHERING FEEDBACK"
Of all the comments I've read I have not seen any changes at all...Their seems to be so many problems I don't remember most of them before the "GOLD" program was forced on it......The one thing I've noticed is my spam increases daily, articles are pages and more pages to which I generally give up reading, they are so overfilled with advertisements!!! We pay You get paid for what??????? -
Anonymous
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145 Spam messages in a box that, for decades, was empty! Why can't you do something?
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Bob Krampetz
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Under Settings >> Mail >> SPAM
Click the help button and you'll see:
Block email addresses from the read email view
1. Sign in to Desktop Gold.
2. Open the read email view.
3. Right click on the email address.
4. Select Add to Blocked Addresses.
5. Click Ok to confirm.Well, when you right click on the email address - you DON'T get 'add to blocked addresses', not on emails in INBOX or SPAM.
So, is the HELP wrong? or was that forgotten in the drop down list?
P.S. It'd be a GOOD enhancement if I could block ANY USER from a specific WEB ID
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Anonymous
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I had one of your techs do a great job of entering things on my block list - but they obviously didn't take. RESTORE the NAME BLOCKING NOW!
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Anonymous
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I currently have 793 SPAM e-mails since 8/2/2020. You solution is to block these unwanted e-mails by right clicking on the e-mail address you do not want to get, The problem is that you never mention the blocked e-mail address capacity for the user is limited to 1000 e-mails. You also do not give a running tally as to where the users stands in that capacity And, perhaps the biggest issue, is that you never let the user know that they have reached their capacity and you are no longer blocking their requested e-mails...........
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Anonymous
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Why are you setting up something that doesn't work. Bring back name blocking ASAP, please!
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Matt
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I get dozens of spam emails every day from UnknownSender@Unknown Domain. Because it's not from an actual domain, I can't use the block-address feature to stop these. Why can't the system either block these nuisances or identify the source domain so we can block them?
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GTS
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I can't believe that AOL et al, can't do something about the ridiculous amount of SPAM that gets thru the system . . .
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Larry Magruder
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Your tool for blocking spam e-mail addresses is not very good. I get tons of spam from ids like 'GoldWild@abcxyz' or 'GoldWild@88765545'. You should add blocking capabilities 'GoldWil*'