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Linux Friendly ISP (and reliability of e-mail service)



The problem with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and a few others is that they have 
relatively small mailboxes which fill up quickly. Another ISP that screws 
up email frequently is TIAC. It is not unusual for me to see bounces on 
one of the listservs for all the TIAC addresses for some stupid reason. 
MSN is another service that bounces email for some rather stupid 
reasons, such as "resource in use". Otherwise, I don't see too many 
bouces from the other local and national ISPs.

On 9 Jan 2001, at 7:08, Ken Gosier wrote:

> One further question: Are ISP's in general good about
> reliably sending/receiving e-mail?
> 
> I've had some problems with lost e-mails from my yahoo
> acct; when In tried to follow up, all I could get back was
> canned responses. ("Did you make sure you typed the email
> address correctly?" etc.)
> 
> Everything seems good with a pop account on 110.net. But
> then I started using a pop mail on a domain hosted at
> powweb.com, and again yesterday I didn't receive an email I
> know was sent to me.
> 
> Um, Arrggghh ??
> 
> Many thanks for passing along any related experiences--
> 
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Billy SG McCarthy wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried checking the archives for this question, but
> > > couldn't seem to find the archives on the BLU site, so
> > > here it is, probably again for some.
> > >
> > > I couldn't seem to find a  Free ISP that's friendly to
> > > linux, so I decided to suck it up and just pay for it.
> > >  I'm having trouble finding that even.  Mostly because
> > > I can't really think of any besides AOL and Earthlink.
> > >
> 
> 
> =====
> Ken Gosier
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com
> 
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