Hmmm. My next question is do we have any idea WHY more spam is now coming
through? I think I had three pieces of spam the entire two and half years
that I had been with mint, and now it is a daily (and sometimes multiple
daily) occurance. I rarely get spam on my gwi account (that address is also
on the internet - both on the archives of this list and on the webpage I
designed for Maine Fiddle Camp, but neither of them has been up as long as
the union site).
Would Adelphia have made some change that would allow more spam in (I have
no idea how they control it, but the one time I got some from mint and
called they made a comment something like "yes. Some got through somehow
today to several of our customers" and maybe they said they had now blocked
that address. Why wouldn't Adelphia be doing the same thing? Do we know
anything about this? (gwi has an active anti-abuse policy, and a special
address to which customers can forward spam they receive in their gwi
accounts - I have used it each of the two or three times I've gotten spam on
that account).
This is an interesting topic. I had forgotten how annoying spam is ever
since I switched away from aol (primarily because of the amount of spam I
was getting on that account).
In solidarity,
-cynthia
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [folkschool-list] Spam question
I've just jumped ship, to Midmaine Communications. Our dial-up account was
just set up today, and I haven't had time to change my E-mail
configurations. (The "@ptfolkschool.org" adrress will still work.) I've
had the same experiences with MINT as Jill and Cynthia, including a big
increase in spam. Like Cynthia, I had just figured that the spammers had
finally caught up with me, but maybe it is connected with the Adelphia
takeover. MINT/Adephia, by my count, has had 4 day-long outages in the
past couple of months, and the last one, on Saturday, pushed me over the
edge.
I've had a good experience (so far) working with Midmaine in setting up DSL
for the Forest Society of Maine, they're local, and an MIdmaine unlimited
dial up account with 4 mailboxes is $6/month cheaper than Adelphia, if you
pay 6 months in advance -- so I thought I'd give it a try. Even if the
service is good, I still worry about them being bought out by a larger
company, like happened to MINT.
Jon
At 10:04 AM 6/28/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Cynthia,
>
>I'm also experiencing this with mint....as well as slow log on times,
frequent
>disconnects, busy signals, and other bothersome problems (like emails going
>into cyberspace) I'm all for giving a company the opportunity to get it
>together....but am seriously considering jumping ship...
>
>Jill Fiore
>
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