NYCkayaker Administrivia: a note for NYCKayaker subscribers using Earthlink

[bonnie13 at earthlink.net]

Huh. Interesting. I'll have to try it.

Now if they'd just figure out a way to lose the ones you suddenly realize you're going to regret sending the minute after you hit the send key, wouldn't that be a great marketing point?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at rockandwater.net>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2006 10:06 AM
>To: nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
>Subject: NYCkayaker Administrivia: a note for NYCKayaker subscribers using	Earthlink
>
>Cringeley's article (see excerpt below) may be found here:
> 
> 	http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061201_001274.html
>
>Note that there's a big difference between rejecting a mail message (which
>should result in notification back to the sender unless their own mail
>system is broken) and losing a message.  The former is very comon (we
>reject >95% of all mail messages sent here); the latter should never happen
>unless something is horribly broken.
>
>---Rsk
>
>----- Forwarded message from "Richard M. Smith" <rms at computerbytesman.com> -----
>
>> From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms at computerbytesman.com>
>> To: funsec at linuxbox.org
>> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:38:02 -0500
>> Subject: [funsec] EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email 
>> 
>> EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email 
>> 
>> LandGator writes "Robert X. Cringely, doyen compu-columnist for PBS,
>> reports on a hidden e-mail problem at Earthlink: They're losing up to 9
>> messages out of 10, found as a result of a friend's testing."
>> 
>> From the article: "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."
>> 
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
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