Members with AOL E-mail addresses-URGENT

[Old Fred]

I've used the mail feature at www.yahoo.co.uk which is very similar to Hotmail but has far fewer problems.

 

[rolfw]

Yes, Hotmail can be a pain sometimes, but it does have the advantage of collection by Outlook Express.

 

[BallymunTrev]

Hotmail, MSN and AOL (AOL you already know of) are cracking down on Spam, but, it seems particular to "spam" that comes from automated Content Managment Systems (like phpNuke, phpBB and Vbulletin). I've heard tons and tons of stuff from people and from people running hosting services that the above 3 are just completely banning emails to them that come from CMS type systems. I've been experiencing it for the last week or so on my own site, un-routable emails due to MSN, Hotmail and AOL filtering phpnuke and phpBB strings and now they've blocked the host I'm with

 

[rolfw]

Yes, there are certainly problems, doesn't strangely enough stop the flood of viagra and enlargement mail though.

I guess that with Hotmail, a large proportion of their mail throughput will be from forum generated mail and blocking this will ease the load on their servers.

 

[jimbo]

Forums are their own worst enemies. Mass mailing info on stuff to a member base where 95% are not interested. Then there's subscribing to individual threads resulting in an email every time someone adds a comment. I see that as pointless but it's a personal opinion as always.

 

[rolfw]

Yes, I've now turned off the admin E-mails on forums where they send out a couple of times a week and never subscribe to threads, unless it is one where I have a real interest in the outcome.

Also doesn't help that people using spam blocking software will mark mail that they have agreed to receive as spam (rather than use the link to stop it) and this is sent back to spam cop etc.

 

[Razor]

I joined Dean's board a short while ago, and get a lot of mail from it, I must go back sometime and do some unsubscribing.

BTW.. Dean if you see this..........Nice board. I'm not giving out.

 

[kalamar]

I have over 10 email accounts at EXCITE.com very easy and reliable,I even use it for Ebay and Paypal when I was using Paypal ! (fook Paypal!)
anyway try EXCITE.com email ,free and easy,and you can choose who to put on or off the spam list.