I tried to sign up for an account or use a contact form on a forum/website hosted by Lupinia, but it said AOL email addresses were disallowed. Why is this?
Solution: For the last few years, AOL has had one of the most aggressive anti-spam policies of any major ISP or email provider. It’s also one of the most failure-prone, and has a very high rate of blocking legitimate email. Even before we moved Lupinia to its new server, we had issues with their anti-spam system blocking mail from the entire server because of a single spam report, which was usually in error. Their email interfaces make it very easy to mistakenly report a message as spam while deleting it, and many people don’t think it makes a difference. However, on AOL, reporting a message as spam automatically blocks the originating server from sending any email into AOL’s system for 24 hours, unless that server is a major ISP like Yahoo or Comcast. Needless to say, we’re not that big. Since the point of requiring your email address on the registration form is to make sure the account is owned by a real person, and in case you need to be contacted by the site’s staff for some reason
