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Srk Feb 8th, 2004 06:52 AM

Problems with Expedia
 
Anyone having trouble with expedia? I have not been able to access their web page for the last 2 days.

Livette Feb 8th, 2004 07:00 AM

No, I was just on there last night.

Sorry you are having trouble.


happycampers Feb 8th, 2004 07:11 AM

I just bought my tickets to Munich yesterday. Sorry

kybourbon Feb 8th, 2004 07:15 AM

I wasn't able to get on last night. I haven't tried today. I wonder if it has anything to do with having aohell.

blondiepopo Feb 8th, 2004 08:08 AM

I was told by a representative at Expedia that if you have AOL 9.0, AOL is blocking your e-mail from Expedia and considers it SPAM. I have e-mailed several places concerning my trip to Europe and I received no reply when I used my AOL screenname. I have a new e-mail address everything I send now seems to go through. My son works with computers and he said AOL can mess up your computer and refuses to download it into his computer at home. As soon as I return from Europe, I'm cancelling my AOL subscription. Hope this helps.

Christina Feb 8th, 2004 09:24 AM

wow, yet another dumb thing AOL does. They are just really getting increasingly pointless as an ISP, I have them at home also and am thinking of cancelling them due to their terrible spam and bad customer service and features.

I have complained many times and they never even respond to complaints by email. The thing that is really odd is there is no reason for what they are doing, the AOL programmers or whatever are just apparently really dumb. Now, I haven't installed AOL 9 yet and won't, if this is what they do. It wouldn't surprise me if you couldn't access Expedia the same way you can't access Fodors from AOL. If it's just access, you should be able to if you use a regular browser on your desktop outside the AOL window.

If it's the mail, another option, of course, is to buy from Expedia through an outside-AOL email account where they have better spam-control features. Yahoo is one example, they have a lot better features than AOL even though they are free. They do have an automatic spam filter (which is actually very good) to detect bulk mailings only, but if you check your spam folder and find a regular company in it you want, you can immediately set the filter to not call that address spam. I do that on my Yahoo account for newsletter mailings from a few companies and it works great. I have AOL 8, I think, and have that set to just call spam my own input addresses and certain words, rather than using AOL's filter (because I don't trust them). Because I don't have AOL 9, I don't know how it works, but it's possible you can change the setting to not use their filter (as you can on AOL 7-8), which sounds like a good idea.

JonJon Feb 9th, 2004 04:42 AM

All of this BS about AOL when we don't even know if the original poster was USING AOL...cry in somebody else's coffee!

Ziana Feb 9th, 2004 04:52 AM

AOL sucks !


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