[SFDXA] Earthlink Information

[Bill Marx]

If you are an Earthlink subscriber make note of this message from Al Waller.
-Bill W2CQ



> On all the lists we have many Earthlink subscribers....probably several 
> thousand.  Earthlink in their effort to control spammers will only accept 
> 15 e-mails from our mailman server and then refuses connections to all 
> others. What this does is build a large queue, which tries to flush and 
> then again sends 15 messages then is denied so the queue grows and grows 
> and most users never get the messages as they never make it to the top of 
> the list. Many Earthlink messages show up days after they are posted if ever.
> 
> We have spent many man hours trying to get Earthlink to work with us on 
> this but so far no joy. They do not seem to care if they indeed even 
> understand what they are doing. The folks who do understand what they are 
> doing are not accessible to us via phone or e-mail.
> 
> Tim and I therefore made the decision to start dropping Earthlink 
> subscribers just for system resource relief....
> 
> You as a list owner will not see a bounce as the mail server continues to 
> blast these messages to Earthlink for about 5 days and Earthlink accepts 15 
> on each queue run. At the system level we get huge mail reject logs, large 
> server queues etc.Your users may not know that their mail was hours to days 
> delayed unless the message was some how time sensitive but most on here are 
> not.
> 
> Al
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