Earthlink -- threat or menace?

[kinzel]

Note to earth:

if you originate email to me through earthlink or mindspring and do not pre-enable me I will not answer you. After today, in fact, I will direct all mindspring and earthlink email to the "age-as-spam" folder....

and look, though today's message that started this rant claimed not to be forwarding my mail, it apparently did anyway. What a bogus circus of a system down there in Atlanta! Why do you put up with it?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What is this pre-enable of which you speak? I've had a mindspring address since they bought nando.net in 1996 and have never heard of it, or had any problems receiving mail. Sending mail.... My father's church apparently has _all_ mindspring addresses blocked, which makes communicating with his pastor rather difficult.
Mary Anne in Kentucky
mastout@mindspring.com for ten and a half years

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

welll...
I got an email requesting a special product. When I replied, I was sent an email...telling me that in order to send mail to that address I'd have to send a special request -- allowing the recipient to verify me and permit me to send them mail.

Pfui...

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard of such set-ups at the level of individual mail programs, but not in ISPs. But then, I don't pay much attention to my ISP as long as it works. (Baaad memories of AOL in 1994.)
Mary Anne in Kentucky