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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1133)	12/25/2003 4:16:37 PM
From: AuBug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

AOL's spam filtering is becoming political filtering. From RISKS digest: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:02:41 -0500 From: (name withheld to protect the innocent, Aschroft take note) Subject: AOL now filtering based on whether they like embedded URLs I just got this bounce message. I was mailing a friend of mine the URL of a MOVEON.ORG Web site that's asking people to rate TV ads on effectiveness,etc., at conveying the downside of GW Bush's policies. AOL won't even deliver the message. Apparently, since the URL has generated complaints (presumably from Bush supporters or current Govt. employees), I'm not even allowed to tell AOL users about it. RISKS: AOL can decide they don't like a particular URL, for instance, of a topic or candidate or public opinion poll that they disapprove of, and voila -- several million people now can't even be told about that page! In this particular case, it's hard to imagine who would complain about it other than people trying to get the page banned because it doesn't agree with their political views. The offending URL (which I highly recommend) is double-u, double-u, double-u, bush in 30 seconds dot org. ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors --<....-at-aol.com> (reason: 554 TRANSACTION FAILED: (HVU:B1) The URL contained in your email to AOL members has generated a high volume of complaints.?? Per our Unsolic) Personal note: This is a great site that I visit daily to vote on ad candidates. I think it's a novel idea and a lot of talented people have submitted their ads. I hope they make many ads and don't burn people out by replaying the same ad too many times. I hope they saturate the airwaves around Bush state-of-the-disunion message. bushin30seconds.org