[brlug-general] Mail to Earthlink

[Shannon Roddy]

Earthlink has a bit of a record for this kind of thing...

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061201_001274.html

"Here is something I wish I were making up. A good friend of mine
noticed last June a sudden and precipitous decline in his volume of
incoming e-mail with the numbers dropping by 80-90 percent. Was he
less popular, less interesting than before? Or maybe some Bayesian
filter had been imposed by his ISP (Earthlink) to suddenly spare him
completely from spam. No such luck.

The trend continued so my friend, who has long been in the networking
business, himself, started running experiments. He sent messages from
other accounts to his Earthlink address, to his aliased Blackberry
address, and to his Gmail account. For every 10 messages sent, 1-2
arrived in his Earthlink mailbox, 1-2 (not necessarily the SAME 1-2)
on his Blackberry, and all 10 arrived with Gmail.

Swimming upstream through Earthlink customer support, my buddy finally
found a technical contact who freely acknowledged the problem. Since
June, he was told, Earthlink's mail system has been so overloaded that
some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming
e-mail. It isn't bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And
Earthlink hasn't mentioned the problem to these affected customers
unless they complain. The two groups affected are those who get their
mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail
addresses like my friend's Blackberry."

On 7/10/07, Chopin Cusachs <cusachs at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> My sister and several other members of the
> family have email addresses at earthlink.net.
>
> I've been getting bounce notices like
>
> .net 007: This e-mail message was undeliverable due to the
> following reason:
>
> .net 015: The destination mail system was not reachable withing the
> allowed period.
>
> Note: This error message is usually due to one of the following
> network problems:
> a. The recipient's mail system is turned off.
> b. The destination mail system is not currently running.
>
> Solution:
> Attempt to resend, or contact the recipient by alternate means to
> let them know about the issue.
>
> Your message was not delivered within 3 days and 0 hours.
> Host earthlink.net is not responding.
>
> The following recipients did not receive this message:
>
> But the recipients have no trouble sending mail to me.  Anyone
> have a clue?   I don't doubt some spammer has been using my
> address, which may have triggered a spam blocker.  I don't
> seem to be able to contact them to ask that my messages to
> relatives be allowed through.
>
> Choppy
>
>
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