[Elecraft] Earthlink ISP problems

Thu Apr 17 19:02:01 2003

Hey Eric,

Thanks for the information on softhome.net. I just created an address there
and hope that it's more reliable than Earthlink has been lately! Migh be
time to find another ISP. I've been with Earthlink for years and it seems
that since Sprint got involved it went down hill fast...I'll have to do a
bit of reseach into better ISP's. They all seem to have issues though...

73's Trev KG6CYN
http://www.qsl.net/kg6cyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Earthlink ISP problems

> A number of elecraft list users who use earthlink as their ISP are
> intermittently experiencing delays getting list email or are getting
> automatically unsubscribed. This is due to a problem at earthlink with
their
> new SPAM filters. Their filters apparently mistake elecraft list email as
SPAM
> when they see multiple emails to an earthlink account in a day from the
same
> list. Earthlink then begins to generate a large amount of bounce/delay
> messages to the list, which causes the qth.net server for the elecraft
list to
>   automatically unsubscribe the user's address as a bad address.
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> This problem is not restricted just to the Elecraft list or others at
> mailman.qth.net. It also is causing intermittent problems for lists hosted
> other places like yahoo groups. There is nothing we are able to do about
it on
> this end :^(
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> Earthlink is still not responding to the issue so earthlink user options
seem
> to be:
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> 1. Complain to Earthlink until they do something (don't hold your breath).
> 2. Get another ISP
> 3. Get a free pop3 address or web mail address and subscribe with it.
> 4. Stay subscribed with your earthlink account but set your elecraft list
>     mail options to 'no mail' and read the list via our web page daily
>     archives at http://www.elecraft.com/elist.html . This will allow you
to
>     still post to the list.
>
> Free pop3 accounts can be had at softhome.net and postmark.net which are
both
> very reliable.  Using forwarding addresses like arrl or qsl will not solve
the
> problem, only make it worse for us to find bouncing addresses.
>
> 73, Eric   WA6HHQ
> Elecraft list manager
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