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Hotmail does it again August 14, 2007

Posted by Robert Puddy in : Business , 8 comments

Strike 2 for hotmail, besides dumping millions of emails into a black hole without telling anyone they have now disabled links in even plain-text emails. On top of that If you’re sending mail from a “new” IP address, that mail is automatically treated as spam and dumped in the bulk folder.

Yes, even one-to-one email from an IP with no previous record of problems.

Yesterday I sent out an email to all my UK subscribers informing them of an almost free workshop I am doing in Bristol this weekend (just £10 for 4 hours of valuable face to face instruction) and every hotmail and MSN email bounced back with a content rejected error message because I used a new URL www.weblearningzone.co.uk

If you must use a free web-based email service, I suggest Yahoo or Gmail. (Gmail no longer requires invitations, by the way.) They’re both a lot friendlier to people who actually want to get email at their email addresses.

Please consider this a public service announcement and check all your subscriptions and memberships to make sure you are actually getting the email you asked for.

Gmail is by far the best free email provider out there. It also has the most accurate filters I have ever seen. If you use Gmail you will never have to use those pesky alert services either like spam arrest. 

I’m on the telly August 9, 2007

Posted by Robert Puddy in : My Itinerary , 1 comment so far

Today I mastered the skill of putting video up on utube, well to be fair I found a man who can do it for me :)

anyway here it is, looks kind of cool.