I couldnt agree more. It seems to becoming far more popular that i receive support tickets saying they have not received log in details etc which i know have been sent due to junk filters, foirewalls

I know that more and more isps are blocking emails that even resemble spam or use words such as free etc. More often they dont just block the email but the enture IP range wich means others cant get through

Derek

The important thing to remember is that email was never designed to be a mass-communication tool. It came about in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson, generally recognized as the father of public email, developed a system so that messages could be left on main-frame computers. PCs and Macs didn’t exist at this time. It is also how the ‘@’ symbol came to be used by email, which were simple text messages only.

Ray Tomlinson had no idea that email would develop into the mass-communication tool that it is today. Otherwise he would’ve designed it for mass-use and we wouldn’t have spam at all!

The answer to spam, despite the best intentions of ISPs, governments and others, is a new category of Internet communication called Private Internet Mail.

This is a closed system, has nothing to do with email, and is not subject to ANY sort of spam or any other email-borne junk.

I can even go as far to say that delivery is guaranteed, WITHOUT resorting to adding &, *, ^, %, $, or any similar characters into your letters and messages.

Further, there is even the ability to take back messages so long as they have not been opened or downloaded, no matter the number sent. Have you ever sent an email and wished a spam filter would eat it because there was something in it that you wish wasn’t?

If you have a list or publish an ezine, can’t you see the benefit of this service to yourself and your readers?

If you just go and try this system out for free for as long as you want, then you will qualify for a mini-vacation of 3-days and 2-nights.

Have a look for your own benefit.

Im lucky enough not to have been around in the “wait 4 hour” days, I only started with computers in 97 so that was long gone by the time I arrived.

According to 1&1 it’s simply a massive load of mail that the servers can’t handle, however it’s being going on for about 5 days now so I suspect it is something a little more complicated than that!

In the latter part of my corporate life, I worked for MCI, the US telecom company. When MCI first offered business-to-business email, desktop PCs were, to all intents and purposes, non-existent. The appliance used, the “slate”, very much resembled a tablet PC – it had a keyboard, an RJ-11 port (phone jack), serial & parallel ports (for modem & dot-matrix printer connectivity), minimal RAM, and a screen that was 80 characters by 10-12 lines. (I may mis-remember the actual available ports.)

When MCI marketed this beast, their claim was that _most_ mail would be delivered within four (4) hours, but there was never a guarantee of delivery.
The selling point was the [near] _instant_ communication at a very low cost, not the reliability. And this was at a time when traffic consisted mostly of university and business communications.

This was before spam, at least in epidemic proportions, and spam filters. The reason then (and it’s still a viable one) for non-deliverability was packet loss across the net.

As more and more servers came on line, reliability increased and delivery time decreased. We’ve become accustomed to “instant” delivery. In fact, some of the kids who’ve grown up with email have never know those four hour delivery times. They think fifteen minutes is slow .

However, the reason for MCI’s original sales pitch still obtains … there are still transmission delays and drops that have nothing to do with spam. In fact, the increase in multimedia advertising, particularly video, probably has more to do with dropped email than spam traffic. In some areas of the Web, the infrastructure – read bandwidth – simply cannot handle the traffic peaks. And it’ll get worse as Web 2.0 and multimedia and Rich Internet Applications and sheer traffic of numbers increase.

Then it’ll ease off as the infrastructure catches up – at least until Web 3.0 and the next bandwidth hog … er-r-r, read ‘big thing’ .

Make a good day …
… barn

Email programs are annoying with those “You are suspicious” warnings, why do they never warn me about spoof emails but always pull me up on the genuine ones!

There was a report in “the registrar” about the mail problems, they have been all over the place this past week, but at least its given me time to get some other stuff finished up!

Now I’m not going to rant about 1&1 as I have used them for over 5 years and this is the 1st time I have had any real problems. Most of the time their service is excellent and at least all my websites are still fine (touch wood) but my emails have been all over the place for the last 3 days. I’m just hoping it does not result in a negative feedback comment for a non delivered items.

That sounds like you need a service to collect emails, make sure they are all double opt-in and spam compliant.

You will find most people use Aweber (link below):

http://elpasso.aweber.com

To send out their mailings, they deal with any spam complaints so you don’t have the hassle of dealing with it.

Also, I spoke too soon about the electricity going down, about 10 mins after I hit send the power went!