Re: I haven't been ignoring you!

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carl,

You are describing one particular email issue that happens to involve List traffic. There are
others. I just replied this way to my brother, in regard to another:

"Not to defend Yahoo Mail, with which I've had my fair
share of problems, but I also have longstanding accounts with EarthLink, and others. They all seem
to have regular service outages, and other issues."

. . .

"I should point out that Hotmail periodically gets blacklisted by several other ISPs --
something to do with providing an open gateway for spammers and malware. For that reason, things
sent from that domain are prone to
bouncing, unexpectedly. But I've seen some cases where email
I've sent from the Pacbell domain also got rejected. Some sort of ISP
retaliation, perhaps ? It's annoying, in any case."

Kari has had to send me email at EarthLink, because what he attempted to send to the PacBell
account kept bouncing. Some of these -- AT&T | Yahoo being perhaps the worst -- make it so
difficult to investigate this or complain about it that it becomes almost an exercise in futility.


  Jordan


From: Carl Distefano 
>To: xywrite@freelists.org
>Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 10:38 PM
>Subject: I haven't been ignoring you!
>
>
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>I've been suspecting for some time that I haven't been receiving all
>of my email, but haven't been able to figure out why, until now.
>Turns out that Thunderbird, which I keep running on my Desktop but
>rarely use, has been routing tons of messages into the Junk folder
>and deleting them from my inbox! I haven't been through it all yet,
>but I noticed some U2-related and other questions (a couple from
>Fred, I think) that have gone unanswered. Sorry about that -- I'll
>get to you as soon as I can.
>
>I have no idea why Tbird starting acting up this way; maybe an
>automatic upgrade gone awry?
>
>--
>Carl Distefano