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Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?
From: Rob Szarka <szlists () szarka org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:09:50 -0400
At 10:33 AM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
I gave up sending abuse reports to Yahoo (and Hotmail) many years ago.
I gave up on Hotmail, too, though occasionally I try a sample to see if they've improved. The latest came back with a message saying that I had to resubmit my report to any entirely different address. As if their inability to forward mail internally is now my problem...
So in the short term, advising customers that Yahoo's and Hotmail's freemail services are of very poor quality and should never be relied on for anything, and that Gmail is a better choice, is probably viable. In the long term, though, I think it may only delay the inevitable.
OTOH, as someone who provides services to small business customers who want their own domains, this may be to my benefit: one of the main selling points of a domain is that it makes you the master of your own fate, not tied to the fate of a particular provider. (At least, if you're smart enough to use a registrar and a service provider who doesn't make it almost-impossible to switch....)
Current thread:
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo?, (continued)
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Edward B. DREGER (Apr 13)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Barry Shein (Apr 11)
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Martin Hannigan (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Joe Greco (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Randy Bush (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Randy Bush (Apr 11)
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo? michael.dillon (Apr 12)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Rich Kulawiec (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Rob Szarka (Apr 11)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Chris Owen (Apr 10)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Chris Stone (Apr 10)
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Raymond L. Corbin (Apr 10)
- Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Chris Stone (Apr 10)
- RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo? Raymond L. Corbin (Apr 10)