🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 07:20:13 GMT, Sal Orlando
<porieux@_N0-SpAM_sirius.com> wrote:

>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?

Do a search for web2pop, a program that will let you used a web-based
mail service with a pop mail client. Costs about $17. Also
prontomail.com has free web-based mail and you can add pop for $12.95
a year.

>
>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