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Article #218Re: Endless Email Hell @Home
From: George Beinhorn
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:06
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:06
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Get a second source for email service. It's the only way. I'm using newsguy.com and have no complaints. Cheap and reliable. gb "Sal Orlando" <porieux@_N0-SpAM_sirius.com> wrote in message news:porieux-FC4C22.23201407122000@news.smateo1.sfba.home.com... > The appallingly bad email situation for @Home users has sunk to new depths. > > Lots of email is still being lost. Sure, some messages are trickling through, > but many messages are not arriving. Many emails from the past week STILL > have not shown up. Hell, I know specifically of a message from Nov 1 that is > still missing! > > Has anyone alerted the various media outlets that, contrary to what they > were told last week, the problem has not been taken care of? It must be hard > for some people to realize they are losing mail when there are still a few coming > through. I happen to subscribe to a bunch of mailing lists, as well as having a > second POP box on another service that my mail is also forwared to, so I know > for certain when mail is missing. I would estimate that at least 60% lost. > > All the FREE Web-based email services I know of have way better service than this! > (I need POP service or I would just use one of them) Unfortunately, my backup POP > server is too slow to be used for daily use. > > Anyone know anywhere else to turn for relialbe POP service? > > I haven't had any problems with connectivity through @Home (knocking on wood..) > but the email service is about the worst I could possibly imagine. I really think this > intermittent crap is a lot worse than if it didn't work at all -- at least then people > would KNOW when they weren't getting their mail. > > Sal > > -- > > Reality Equals Infinite Resolution
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