Re: [CGUYS] Your removal from the COMPUTERGUYS-L list
Here is the answer from my ISP Terra:... Marcio, Thanks for letting us know how you are doing. I have not seen you in the bounce report since I restored you so I'm assuming you are now getting CGUYS mail (a mixed blessing these days). So their response was just legalistic BS. The proper response from Terra would have been Sorry we made a mistake. We fixed it. We apologize for inconveniencing you. It won't happen again. First question is if Terra is one of those Brazilian companies that will send people around to break your arms if you stop doing business with them? Second question is if there are any reasonable alternatives? Clearly Terra is not doing its job and they don't care. You should not give business to them. At a minimum you should not entrust your email to such a badly run system. Of the free alternatives, GMail is currently the best run and has the best chance of staying in business for a long time. Also, from a technical point of view, moving your email into the cloud is the smart thing to do. Moving an email address can require many months (or years) for everyone to get clued in to you new address so it is better to act sooner rather than later. Eventually you should just forward your Terra address to GMail to sweep up the stragglers. Tom * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Your removal from the COMPUTERGUYS-L list
Gmail is free and has a great spam filter. For things like this list it is perfect. You can keep your own archive and it threads conversations fairly well- as long as the titles don't get changed. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:08 AM, D Freye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get 20 to 60 real E-mails a day and no spam. I have one address for giving to companys and one for real mail. Fastmail takes care of the spam filters. Very good for $20 a year. On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:19 -0400, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Unfortunately, spammers are causing perfectly rational companies to lose their minds when it comes to blocking spam. Caution is out the door and down the road. I could shift things over to my gmail account, but that gets over 5,000 spam/month. I don't even bother going through the spam folder checking for ham. I'll say what I've said before: email is no longer a reliable form of communication. If every company published a SPF record and checked incoming mail against published SPF records, spam wouldn't be the problem that it is. Sadly, not enough do this to make a significant difference. Be at Peace. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * -- John Duncan Yoyo ---o) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
