But when text emails from my daughter or a friend, both of whom are on my AOL contacts list, wind up in spam, it's simply unforgivably lousy data processing.
Don't get me wrong, I am not defending AOL, in fact I firmly believe
"friends don't let friends use AOL'.
I'm not with AOL by choice. Verizon bought them, moved their entire email operation to their platform, and gave me an option to retain my @verizon.net addresses, albeit on the AOL platform, switch to @AOL addresses, or move to Gmail... No brainer!
First, I'll clarify that those emails never got to Mail; they were segregated as spam at the AOL level.
Second, they came from longstanding contacts, were totally innocuous...limited to "Si!" in some cases, and not at all likely spam candidates.
Third, the problem never recurred after I deleted the senders from and added them back to my AOL contacts list.
Your guesses are all reasonable, but I'll hang my hat on an AOL glitch.
