If you left a comment recently, like in the past two weeks, and it never showed up on my journal, please try again.
Comments are sent in an email to my AOL address, where I approve them for posting. Well, big surprise. AOLers are reporting that NO EMAILS FROM BLOGGER are getting through to their AOL mailboxes.
Very strange. The AOL reps are mystified. Nobody can figure out what went wrong. Blogger (the host of this site) is supposedly on the "white list". In AOL, if it comes from somewhere not on the white list, emails get thrown away as spam. You never even see them. Which seems to usually work pretty well, since I get only an average of one or two spam emails a day on AOL.
A lot of AOLers are very suspicious. Especially since several hundred of them pulled their journals off AOL when AOL added advertising on their journals with no warning and no permission, and many of them moved to Blogger, while keeping their AOL email accounts. Me included. Hmmmm.
Other AOLers have said it's been going on for two weeks. I know a week ago I was still getting comment alerts, so last night I tried an anonymous comment, and, no kidding, no notice.
So I changed my Blogger comment notification address from AOL to my id on Yahoo, where I hear they do get through.
If you left a comment recently, like in the past two weeks, and it never showed up on my journal, please try again. I did not ignore or censor you.
5 comments:
Hmm. I never thought about the problems with comment modification. That is far worse than those of us who simply aren't getting notified of new posted comments.
I left a comment a week or so ago and it didn't show up. But I forgot what I said and to which post it was. It's no longer relevant anyway. Happy Full Moon!
That problem is showing up on more than just AOL.
I'm not sure whether you're aware of this or not, but if you think there are comments that have been left that you haven't yet seen, you can go into your blog's "Dashboard" screen by logging in, click the link to your blog, then look for the tab that says "Comment Moderation."
Regardless of whether you've received an email or not, the comments waiting to get your approval are there. It's also not a bad idea to check there once a month or so, just to make sure you haven't missed one.
Hope that helps until the mail problem is resolved.
Patrick
Thank you, Patrick. I looked, and found several, including Little Red's. I'm happy now.
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