Yahoo & Hotmail doesn't deliver

[Guest jwraustin]

I get anywhere from 50 to 100 e-mails per week, and I always promptly reply as best I can. What I notice is that a lot of the e-mails I send to yahoo and hotmail are delayed for a couple days. I get a notice back saying the mail has been delayed due to a broken link, and not to re-send the e mail. The mail usually arrives about two days after I send it. This has become the norm lately, and I am getting a little frustrated.

 

So, if you guys are sending me mail from yahoo and hotmail, please bear in mind that if you don't get an answer back within 24 hours of your sending it, then it's not me, but your e mail host.

 

I apologize for the inconvenience, but there is nothing I can do. There are some very good e mail hosts out there that you might look into switching.

 

Jon Dean

http://www.manfuck.net

[+ deej]

When Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., started offering free email accounts I warned people not to use them as a primary contact.

 

Hotmail now limits outgoing e-mails at 100 per day because so many spammers were blasting millions of emails through their servers it was strangling the servers. Yahoo is downgrading all of their free services (like Yahoo Groups) because there isn't enough revenue from advertising to pay for the free part.

 

For free, you get what you pay for.

 

And then there's the "Adult Services" backlash that's going on right now. It isn't pretty. IBILL is tightening the screws. PayPal is shutting people off, all on morals issues.

 

We're coming full-circle in the internet world. It used to be you had to pay to participate, then it was free-and-easy and everyone could do anything, soon it will once again be pay as you go.

 

The internet is NOT free. Somebody has to pay for all the traffic, and it's the people who use it who will pay.

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

An Ideal World

 

When Hot Male was first established and long thereafter, simply signing up for the service immediately got you a collection of spam. If you had just that moment signed up for the service and not even had an e-mail address to give out, how could you get spam unless Microsoft was somehow involved, either directly or indirectly. It has only been in the recent past that Microsoft has established spam guards, junk/bulk mail folders and the like for both MSN and Hot Male.

 

Unfortunately, these types of services, which have long been available at Yahoo, often keep legitimate e-mail from going through.

 

Irrespective of the bandwidth issue and other factors involved, individuals will still get Yahoo and other such "free" accounts and other people will need to deal with any resulting problems.

 

My own experience is that I do not have the problem Jon Dean experiences, at least not at the level he does.