AOL blocks Opponents of Pay AOL E-mail Plan

I know most of you are either off of work today, or preparing to give a sermon today, tomorrow, and/or Sunday, but I also know many of you are AOL customers, and thus need to know about this.

America Online on Wednesday apparently began blocking e-mail on its servers containing the Web address of a petition against the company's upcoming certified-mail program, an issue the company called a "glitch."
The Internet service provider, which has roughly 20 million subscribers in the United States, began bouncing e-mail communications with the URL "Dearaol.com" sometime late Wednesday and continuing through Thursday.
A e-mail sent by CNET News.com to an AOL.com address and containing the URL "www.dearaol.com" bounced back on Thursday afternoon with a system administrator note that read: "The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not report a specific reason."
AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said late Thursday that AOL e-mails mentioning Dearaol.com would now be delivered as normal.

From what I know of AOL, I am not likely to believe this was a "glitch". More likely, someone thought they could bury opposition and did not check with the corporate lawyers first.