March 5, 2008
Author's Response:
This is a call to action to the Newgrounds community.
For the past several months we have been unable to send any email to AOL users. This applies to nightly/weekly emails, validation emails and emails from our individual NG staff addresses. Basically, whenever we send an email to any @aol.com address it gets bounced back with a "550 Mailbox not found" error. Normally, such an error would occur only when the address in question did not exist, however, AOL in their infinite wisdom, likes to throw it around for other reasons as well. We've been on the phone for literally months trying to get this issue fixed but no one over there seems to care.
If you'd like to read the longer version head on over to my blog post on the matter: Seriously people, just quit AOL already.
If you'd like to have this problem fixed, please email postmaster@aol.net with a subject of "Newgrounds.com email" and a body of:
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Please fix your mail servers so they can accept emails from Newgrounds.com.
Thanks!
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I'm not sure if this will do anything, and frankly I'm not sure I care. I mean, AOL for email, yuck! But Bob says, "a community is only as strong as its weakest member" and someone still using AOL for email seems pretty weak to me. Besides, if nothing else it should annoy the hell out of someone at AOL and that's a win in my book.
