Do you use an Earthlink email address?
If so, please note that you will never, ever receive a response from me to your email. Earthlink’s hoop jumping systems for blocking spam, while maybe necessary, is actually more annoying that the actual spam. I suppose blocking *all* email *is* a valid way to reduce spam. ;o)
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One way to avoid this is to not sell customer’s email addresses to spammers.
My god. The irony in that is just too much to comprehend. ;o)
Can you clarify why? I’m currently a “earthfink” user, and I’m curious as to why, and would like more details about the decision. Are you saying your email service is blocked by earthlink?
Mark:
In the past week, I’ve gotten 3 emails from Earthlink users. When replying to them, I get a bounce message saying ’sorry about this, but due to spam, I need you to log into our site and confirm you are who you are before we can accept email from you’ (Paraphrasing).
I don’t know if this is a new option that earthlink turns on by default or what, but it pretty much makes communicating with anyone that has this option not worth the effort. ;o)
hmmm,
I’m going to have to dig into this. It would be very uncool if they did this without alerting their users that this is going to happen.
Mark
I think i’ve discovered the crux of the issue. If a user sets their spamblocker in Earthink to “high” anybody not in the users addressbook is considered to be suspect, and forces them through nasty hoops.
On medium, my setting and i believe the default, it will not prevent unkown senders, and will only block known spam.
I have a couple of friends with whom I have to be very careful sending email. I have about 6 accounts, and if I accidentally send from the wrong one, I’m not on their damned list and I’ve got to go through all the rigamarole to get through.
It is bogus, however, that their sending you an email does not automatically set you as a trusted sender. Earthlink is starting to give off a wilderness survivalist vibe, impenetrable fortress vibe.