Go back to the way it was and improve on it!
When this was a Verizon service, I was able to use a wild card in the domain - ie @somewhere.com - dramatically reducing the amount of spam that got anywhere near my address. Since the merger with AOL and its recent separation this ability has been removed. The only reason I can see this happened is someone's wallet got thicker. As an email service you have a responsibility to your customers to provide a comfortable and less intrusive experience. Your spam blockers are not cutting it. If you are not willing to block these domains, give your customers the tools to be able to do it themselves! You could give us the ability to block a million addresses and no one is ever going to be able to block every "haveBabyPoundOnKeyboard@MightBeHavingstoke.CantSpellDomain.com".
BRIAN EBERT
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Lynn Venghaus
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It seems I'm spending a lot more time blocking senders lately since I cannot block an entire domain. Please give us the ability to stop annoying scammers and spam more easily. Somehow my address got on a list that every egregious scoundrel has access to. I've been with AOL for 20 years and really don't want to change my email address.
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BRIAN EBERT
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This is obviously a hot issue. I have not seen anything from product support. There are multiple threads out there, for the most part, asking the same questions and requesting the same abilities. Are you going to restore the ability to use a wild card in the domain portion of the email address?
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BRIAN EBERT
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I love how the asterisks disappeared from my examples.....*@*somewhere.com)