take it for whatever it is worth...
Hotmail (actually Outlook; only the domain name was retained from the old MS
free email system) might be the easiest to work with. in the past it was
known for providing an easy access to all kinds of spammers, so it has a bad
reputation. But it has been reworked quite a bit and offers decent service
and quite good web interface. If you are, by any chance an Internet Explorer
user, it has really good integration. You can easily define filters, so e.g.
all emails from C&C list can be put into a separate folder.
Gmail - very popular lately; quite transparent (they don't filter much, so
the chances are that they won't mistakenly filter some important message). I
don't like their web client (but this is very personal). It does not
integrate as well as Hotmail with e.g. Windows Live Mail, especially, if you
normally access email from multiple computers (this includes tablets and
phones). Hotmail/Outlook synchronises all folders perfectly; Gmail requires
some careful planning and configuration.
Your ISP e-mail - usually the worse of them all (e.g. many ISPs include spam
filters that have many false positives and filter out messages that are
quite legitimate (e.g. my provider filters out CRA (Canadian equivalent of
IRS) e-mails; this is not good, for example, if the email was a reminder of
a filing deadline); other examples include filtering out emails for change
of password requests). the web client and integration with your desktop
client vary by provider. Having said all this, an email account from your
provider might be the easiest fix for the Yahoo issues. These emails are
quite disposable, so you can set up an account and if it is no longer
required, drop it.
Marek
-----Original Message-----
From: Wally Bryant
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 2:26 PM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List List Problems
Bummer. A friend of mine (and of my family) is actually the guy who
invented Yahoo email, so I've been there for nearly 20 years. The
company was originally called RocketMail.com, and he sold it to Yahoo
and now lives on his own private island and is totally diversified and
not involved with operations. I use them for web hosting and email, but
do pay an extremely low fee for my own domain name, which seems to avoid
a lot of problems.
Hotmail is owned by Microsoft. BellSouth is, well, the phone company.
Gmail seems to be a preferred 'free' email source these days, but I'm
sure in a few years they'll get stuck in the mud.
Wal
Stu wrote:
Yahoo initiated a terrible policy change to their mail servers recently
that impacts every single mailing list software in use. If any Yahoo.com
user posts to your list, they will cause those list members are using
Hotmail, Gmail, Bellsouth, etc to bounce the poster's message which can in
turn cause the list to remove these members from the list for excessive
bounces. The problem is with Yahoo.
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