Anomoly with Email

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rlinger

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Hate to put this on Shop Talk but I think it important enough and I mean this as a general statement rather than a discussion thread. It seems emails from some are not getting through to me. I first had indication of this a couple weeks back when a customer got me by phone and wondered why I had not responded to a couple emails. We decided I should email him and he reply. I received nothing but he did get mine. Well, I thought maybe a glitch in his get-along on his end and I thought 'beats me'. Yesterday evening I called a fellow who has something I want to purchase. He asked I email my address and he would reply by email with total cost including shipping. I did and no reply. I did again and a day later no reply. Finally I called on the land line. He explained he had replied to both my emails. I, to now, have received neither. I hate doing this over the internet because of web crawlers but I feel I should post my phone number for those who may not have it and need to make contact. So here it is: (304)755-0668. I have zero idea how long I may have had this email problem. I receive emails every day and why some do not come through is a mystery.

Forgot to say: I keep hours worse than Dracula and when I retire of the early mornings I try to remember to unplug the phone and upon arising I plug it back in. Calls earlier than late afternoon will usually get a ring only. Best time for me is late afternoon (EST) to very late night.

rlinger
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Check your spam folder in your email box. I had a similar problem when my anti-spam protection started sending some mail there. If you check the folders there should be an IN, "Spam-killer",OUT, SENT, DRAFTS, etc.
Stacy
 
Roger, some ISPs will block entire email domains from being received. There is actually a for-hire service out there that 'decides" which domains carry a lot of virus emails, and then blocks the entire danged domain. You can do this on your own computer with many email progs, but they simply decide to do it for you without your knowledge.

I ran into this a couple years ago when a friend of mine out in NY changed ISPs to a company called FrontierNet and he could no longer receive emails from my Ameritech address. Poking around their website I finally uncovered that they used a blocking service. The emails weren't even allowed through into a bulk email folder, simply stonewalled. He had to call his provider and have them specifically allow my email addy.

You may be victim of the same type of provincial xenophobia. Check with your ISP.
 
I discovered a while back that I wasn't receiving any e-mails from Yahoo. I never did find out why, but I added a note on the main page of my web site asking people to call me if I don't reply to e-mails, 'cause I still don't trust these new fangled computer thingies...
 
The blocking I spoke of was applied extensively to those domains that offered free email services such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Juno, etc. Spammers frequently use freebie accounts to do their evil so many ISPs simply blocked all email from those domains, legitimate or otherwise. Cuts down processing and storage demand on their servers while it supposedly "protects" you.

This is one reason why no one should become angry that a "first" email goes unanswered. Many, many emails are simply deleted by a provider before the recipients ever see them.
 
rlinger said:
I hate doing this over the internet because of web crawlers but I feel I should post my phone number for those who may not have it and need to make contact. So here it is:
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Well now this is very discouraging. I finally received his two emails 2 days late and stamped with the 2 day late date (not the date they were sent). Please don't let your friends drive Netzero.

rlinger
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