Author: Paul Richards
Date: 09:30:37 06/08/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 20:03:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >If you use hotmail.com, you are _already_ in trouble and don't even know it. >Over 50% of the sendmail relay sites around the world are _killing_ your email >messages. Because hotmail.com is on every SPAM blacklist I know of. And now >folks are using sendmail clients that check the various blacklists before >accepting email from the sender. > >I ran into this because UAB.EDU is also on all the blacklists, because our >main campus email server had a sendmail client with open-relay allowed, and >spammers were using us as a third-party to forward SPAM but make it look like >it came from us since they were already blocked. > >I got wind of this trying to communicate with a friend of mine in Portland, >where his company sendmail was quietly dropping my email to him into a toilet >because of the blacklist. > >You are doomed to a shrinking view of the internet if you use hotmail or any >other anonymous email provider. And I'll bet you didn't know? :( No, because I hardly use it, and when I have the messages have gone through fine. Besides web mail is a pretty irritating interface to use consistently, so I doubt I ever will. I use my real ISP address and real email software for normal email, I just never post that address anywhere online. I remember to check the hotmail account once every week or two. It's just a "clearing house" for anyone that wants to contact me based on some online discussion. Usually it isn't necessary because we are discussing things on a particular forum already, and any points made may as well be made in public. If I've observed them for a time and feel I know where they're coming from (relatively easy if you're a member of a particular group for a long time) and I want to engage in a longer private discussion I will respond or initiate a private discussion from my "real" account and the discussion continues from there. I don't invite the whole world to call my phone number or knock on my door, so why should I do it with email? ;) This heirarchical/buffer system works very well for me. My private email gets used for things that demand my immediate attention, I don't get swamped repeating discussions that I already engage in online, I don't get hostile drivebys, anyone I talk to there will be someone I always enjoy talking to, and I never ever get a single piece of spam in my real account.
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