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 | rob2006
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Austell, GA | Re: And that is why I use Gmail for my main email addr earthlink sucks | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: And that is why I use Gmail for my main email addr said by rob2006  :earthlink sucks Don't you mean "Earthstink"?
Gmail and hotmail are far more reliable than my isp's mail(cox, they sell addresses to doubleclick so i never bothered with cox's email)
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
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| said by TK Junk Mail :He sent messages from other accounts to his Earthlink address, to his aliased Blackberry address, and to his Gmail account. For every 10 messages sent, 1-2 arrived in his Earthlink mailbox, 1-2 (not necessarily the SAME 1-2) on his Blackberry, and all 10 arrived with Gmail. Depending on ISP, email is usually hit and miss at best. But Earthlink's results are truly abominable. You should read the two groups affected. It is not Earthlink the ISP customers being affected as the article here severely misleads.
It is clearly listed as two groups. Hosting Accounts and people using the Alias features that are included with the Hosting. It is not the ISP customers.
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
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join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD | Zombies? I'd be curious to see a correlation between the number of zombies on the network and delivery rates. My unscientific guess would be high numbers of zombies would mean high numbers of failures due to DNSBL usage. | |
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maartena
Obama 2008
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
| And thats one reason I have my own domain. I got fed up with provider e-mail services a long, long time ago. I registered my own domain, added hosting to the mix, which has gotten me a very reliable e-mail and enough storage space online. 5 Gb to be exact, which I can access using FTP. Very handy for a private software collection. 
A few reasons why I switched to my own domain:
- I got sick and tired of having to tell everyone my new e-mail address after a move... OR after my ISP decided to sell out and the new company forced their e-mail address on me.
- I got sick and tired of the limited storage e-mail providers offer. For instance, TWC/RoadRunner still offers only 10 Mb per e-mail account.
- I got sick and tired of the webhosting "features" of my ISP which usually came down to 10 Mb homepage space and basically no other features besided placing HTML files.
- And the biggest reason was actually that my ISP was getting to be unreliable. Especially their SMTP server did not always sent what I was sending.
I pay $9,95 a month for my services and I am happy with them. Its worth it to me. Others may have enough with GMail or Yahoo Mail which offer quite ample storage as well.
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join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
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| Re: And thats one reason I have my own domain. said by maartena :I got fed up with provider e-mail services a long, long time ago. I registered my own domain, I pay $9,95 a month for my services and I am happy with them. Its worth it to me. Others may have enough with GMail or Yahoo Mail which offer quite ample storage as well. Who do you use to host everything? | |
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HappyBunny
Hi. Cram It.
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join:2001-06-23
Long Beach, CA
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| This also applies to Charter I have had Charter Pipeline for five years--their email is absolutely unreliable and always has been. The servers are down very often--and they only give 5MB per address. Not even close to being enough--I am a graphic designer and clients sometimes send me photos and art for their projects and my mailbox would be full much too quickly.
It sucks, but I for years I have paid extra for email from another ISP--unfortunately they broke down for several days this summer and I just went with GMail. | |
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Techman21
join:2005-04-14
Richmond, VA
| Meh this known Bah. If you actually read the article this guy spits out a paragraph or two about e-mail then goes straight into some spiel about megapath and Bell South who he terms "The Devil".
The cause of the issue isn't necessarily the fault of the ISPs; in some cases it is. But the majority of the issue is the lack of coming together to root out the annoying spammers who cause the issue of slamming the mail servers in the first place. Then you have morons who click on everything and allow everyone to e-mail them. Putting more strain on the mail server for other customers.
We recently upgraded the mail software at my job and regardless of how much spam we are able to stop now we still get complaints that spam comes thru. Well no duh genius. There isn't an e-mail address on this planet that is impervious to getting spam. Its just near impossible. Even setting the account up to only receive mail from trusted senders. That test now no longer works thanks to morons who let worms and viruses nest on their machines and fail to clean them up.
It is widely known in the IT industry that the likes of AOL, Hotmail, et al. like to let some mail (randomly it appears) to be sucked into a black whole never to be seen. Nor are there any notifications on what happens to mail. At the same time keep in mind the protocols and software being used here. Obviously there is a large flaw somewhere within the system if this is consistently happening all over. Unless the bounce messages have been turned off by the offending ISP. This may be done in order to stop spamming of bounced messages to forged e-mail addresses. Although if SPF was used more widely it would/should be less of a problem (spoofs that is). But see MS and AOL don't like playing nice so MS comes up with their own convoluted solution and AOL just doesn't plain care enough. No wonder AOL is heading towards a free strategy. | |
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PolarBear
The asshole formerly known as aaron8301
join:2005-01-03
Riverside, WA | G-ingle mail! Gmail Rocks, Gmail Rocks, Gmail saves the day!
Oh how nice it is to get your email right away!
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| Techman21
join:2005-04-14
Richmond, VA
| Re: G-ingle mail! LOL. Yes, Gmail is pretty good. The catch rate is incredible. My guess is that it uses some sort of trusted senders list.
Perhaps when you send out e-mail from Gmail it adds that particular address to a trusted users list which then is able to bypass much of their filtering. The filtering they do must be immense, especially with how much space we are given on there.
Most of the e-mail going into the address I have is spam. Although I've signed up for so much on the net using that particular address.
Heck, I never even used my earthlink account due to their filtering process. When I first got my address it was maybe a year after they started their trusted senders white list deal. Where you had to insert the address into your book in order to recieve mail from that person/company. Regardless though I still receive weekly reports of what is in my box. | |
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jazzy_
join:2004-01-27
Charleston, SC
| Re: G-ingle mail! I've been using Gmail for over two years now and have only received two spam messages in my actual inbox that I can remember. All the rest have been filtered to the spam box. I have always received my messages to the best of my knowledge. I've heard some of the most ridiculous excuses for not using Gmail, I just shake my head and move on. | |
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GhostDoggy
join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
| ISP should evolve to ICP Internet Service Providers need to evolve into something more along the lines of an Internet Connection Provider. By removing the service-aspects, the can greatly simplify their network.
This isn't to say that an ISP's (ahem, ICP's) parent company should offer 'services', but that a separation for the benefit of moving headaches to someone else might be better.
Newsgroups, email, personal web space, etc., etc., etc. need to evolve to a point that the intelligent on the Internet can run their own services, and the not-so-intelligent can run AOL.  | |
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blashphemy
@comcast.net
| Gmail Consider the following:
1) ISPs generally have very unreliable email, very little space, and have been around forever
2) Gmail is rock-solid reliable, gives you 2.7 GB of storage and counting, has thrid party programs that allows you to use all that extra storage for personal file hosting and backup, has free POP3 access (considering its a webmail provider), gives you Google Talk right in the window automatically, is free, AND is still in fuzzing beta!!!
Does that make any sense to you? | |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Suprising! I didn't know anyone actually used email from their ISP. Weird. | |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
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| Too bad the person who reported this did NOT read the story quote:
The two groups affected are those who get their mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail addresses like my friend's Blackberry.
That fully explains the two groups and that is not the ISP regular customers being affected.
People using "EL Hosted Domains" and their "Alias features"
My email as a ADSL customer has been 100% complete.
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@swbell.net | Re: Too bad the person who reported this did NOT read the story That's why I got a Cobalt Qube and my own domain name and run my own email server. I don't have to worry about quota's or lost email then | |
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unoriginal
join:2000-07-12
San Diego, CA
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| Register a domain and then use Google Apps I registered for my own domain and then signed up for Google Apps for Your Domain: www.google.com/a
This service lets you use Google to host your mail, webpages, etc all for free and you use your own domain name for incoming and outgoing mail. For me this is preferable to using an @gmail.com addy instead. The service has been very reliable and is totally free, which is the best part. | |
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| ottawa_guy
join:2005-06-03
Ottawa, ON | Re: Register a domain and then use Google Apps ewolfr - GREAT IDEA TO USE GOOGLE APPS!
Wow I love it! Already registered my domain, that will get rid of the spam! Yieepe!
I praise you!!!! | |
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thender
Glamour Profession
Premium
join:2004-05-16
Staten Island, NY
| With Verizon email I miss tons of estore confirms/receipts.. But they give me unlimited use of 31/9.5 mbps for $55/month, so I forgive them. 
gmail > verizon. I hated missing receipts to stuff I buy, or records, or confirmations with tracking numbers(this is the most annoying), so I gave in and got a second gmail account for real life stuff and haven't used the verizon accounts since. | |
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Mirazh
join:2001-03-01
Mountain View, CA
| Website dedicated to Spam and Email issues »www.tqmcube.com/tide.php
Email has seemed to come to a crawl especially last week.
I have Speakeasy and called them on the issues of more spam and slow service. Even the inability to connect to the servers. Tech support gave me this link to look over.
Interesting, thought I'd it share with the rest of you.
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
Premium
join:2003-02-13
Mission Viejo, CA
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| Earthlink: Worse than AOHell Cox drops the ball from time to time and sometimes I receive email days later than when it was originally sent. No apparent reason why it was delayed/held for days. A nastigram addressed to customer service usually earns a lame apology, but 90% of email not delivered leaves me speechless. WTF. And people PAY for that service from Earthlink? Why isn't anyone complaining more loudly about it. | |
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Doctor Olds
I Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.
Premium,VIP
join:2001-04-19
1970 442 W30
clubs: | Re: Earthlink: Worse than AOHell Didn't actually read the article, did you? Tell us what two groups were affected. | |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
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join:2003-02-13
Mission Viejo, CA
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| Re: Earthlink: Worse than AOHell said by Doctor Olds :Didn't actually read the article, did you? Tell us what two groups were affected. 90% is a hell of a lot no matter which two groups are mentioned in the piece. Any other pop quiz questions you want to ask me, sparky?
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And that is why I use Gmail for my main email addr
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