Error Code: Kiss My Ass, AOL
Written by David M. Muench
When I was attempting to mail out my jokelist the other day, this error message kept popping up; not permitting me to send out my mail:
"Mail cannot be sent at this time, error code: RS"
Hmmm. "Error code: RS." I'm clueless. Usually when I click "Send Now," my mail is sent. A cute little box even pops up informing me that my mail has indeed been sent.
Now suddenly I get that ambiguous error message and I'm supposed to know what the hell it is. Naturally I think it's AOL on cyber-crack yet again and will only be a brief aberration. Uh, no, folks. I finally acquiesced to contacting AOL and ask them what the funky monkey shit HELL was going on.
On the inside.
They asked me if I had any hyperlinks in the e-mail I was sending.
Since it was my jokelist, I said, "yes, quite a few."
This is the reply, verbatim:
"The error code you're getting is caused by a hyperlink that contains a
numeric web site address. Most spammers use this to spread
Spam on the Internet. AOL's anti Spam controls are filtering these
to block unwanted e-mail delivered to your mailbox."
Huh. So "error code: RS" is supposed to tell me that I've got some numeric website URL in my e-mail, and that I should take steps to remove the hyperlink code and send it as text-only. Oh, sure, makes perfect sense to me.
For example, this is the single, little URL that was causing me the grief:
http://195.92.224.73/j20/content/host.asp
See the IP address in that darn ole URL? AOL will no longer allow you to send it as a link, such as this.
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