I think that they are getting ready to address this issue. Below is
an excerpt from their press release dated 9/4/96 of which the full
text is available at http://www.aol.com/about/press/1996/960904e.txt
In addition, later this month AOL will release a new feature
that will assist the individual member to customize their email
and refuse mass mailings. Currently, members can forward junk
email to a representative of AOL's Terms of Service department or
simply hit the "ignore" button at the bottom of the list of new
mail.
On 7 Sep 96 at 1:57, Eric Thomas wrote:
>[...]
> Solution 1 is to offer AOL customers the ability to block mail from
> certain companies, and then provide a clickomatic way for an AOL user to
> say "I never want to see mail from this company again" when reading a
> spam. Then the user expresses a desire not to communicate with the
> companies in question and that's too bad for the spam factory.
[...]
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Namaste'
Kimberly Long
Houston, Texas
mailto:klong @
spiralnet .
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