Following on from my rant the other day I have read about more and more people who are stuggling to legitamately communicate with people on or from Earthlink connections. Spamhaus, who are part of an anti spam organisation think it’s legitamate to block those of us on dynamic (DHCP) IPs, that means, everyone sitting at home or in a small office using broadband. If you choose to use your own domain name (like ALL businesses) to send mail to your customers, then Earthlink in their wisdom think you are a spammer.
So, my prediction of the day is that Earthlink along with their equally misguided & equally unhelpful buddies at Spamhaus are slowly closing the doors on communication with Earthlink customers.
So either, Earthlink becomes a closed community that can not communicate with the outside world, or, they choose to stay in business by thinking more logically about their ’spam’ policy.
All I want to do is to email customers I have who use Earthlink. So either the policy stays as it is, I loose my customers, or my customers, finding it hard to talk to anyone listed as having a dynamic IP address, move to somewhere more business focused.
I get the impression that there is a bunch of smart-arsed tech heads who think they are in control here. They will be in control washing cars in a while if they carry on the way they are.
Rant Over….
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.]]>“Oops, we can’t find that page, You can press the back button on your browser and try again. Or click on our site map to find the page you’re looking for.You can call us free on 0800 049 7802 if you need more help.”
The reason why I am complaining is because when I attempted to call it was a cock up and no one was helpful. Not that the web route was any better, I had no response to my first attempt. This attempt above doesn’t look too promising either.
I guess they are all too busy talking at TalkTalk to help customers out.
Life is challenging enough without organisations that have grown too large and are too inward focused. The worst large organisations are those that will argue that they are very customer focused when it is clear that they are not and will blindly carry on refusing to admit their failure to listen and support customers.
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.]]>What in the world is going on? Back in my day we could buy a domain and use it as a way to brand one’s self to send and receive email.
I started up my mac Monday morning and have not sent much out since.. once in a while I get one mail out, then it blocks up, and the mail server tells me things are busy but I also get a SPAMHAUS message telling me some rubbish and telling me to get my ISP to unblock me, which is ridiculous if you are on TalkTalk since those guys are unable to even read a technical support request and are well out of the depth with an issue like this.
Time to change ISPs perhaps.
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.]]>I say, “that’s a lot of work you have now given me to change in a lot of my articles Google ! I shall remember that next time I consider trying one of your services you are pushing”
Time to move on.
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.]]>I say, “that’s a lot of work you have now given me to change in a lot of my articles Google ! I shall remember that next time I consider trying one of your services you are pushing”
Time to move on.
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.]]>Hope you are all having a good day. Im eating fruit and looking at a hazy sunny sky today :O)
All the best
Guy
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.]]>Hope you are all having a good day. Im eating fruit and looking at a hazy sunny sky today :O)
All the best
Guy
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.]]>Well, the world would be a richer place for all our opinions since if we all wrote with honesty and clarity we would all be able to read most of what is going on in each other’s minds. Another thing, we would all need a mac laptop and all be less healthy because of our passions for typing.
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.]]>I had a mail from Steve pavlina to say I was spamming him. I was shocked since I detest spam as much as the average person but there I was with Steve telling me he had got a couple of mails from me both asking for a link.
As much as Im ambitious I don’t do it by treading on other people’s toes especially when one of the guys that gave me my initial motivation to try some commercial blogging tells me Im spamming him. See Steve’s great article at
Steve Pavlina: Making Money From Your Blog.
So I apologised and went to the suppliers of the application to ask how this could have happened. Their response was that I must have not put a filter on to stop this happening..which I always do, so something else must have gone wrong.
So after that I decided enough was enough, the program I was using wasn’t good enough to stop this duplication of emails happening, and it was also sending mails to site owners who had little to do with my markets so a waste of time all round really.
Nowadays I do some searching and mailing people asking for a link. I get to know a few more people out there and its all quite casual and relaxed. Maybe not the 100 links or so I wanted to achieve, but then Google wouldn’t take kindly to that sort of boost in links so Im happy to move on in a more careful way. At least I tried the other way.
Im thinking the application concerned, which is incidentally made by a bunch of nice guys who do well, so I wont knock their app down in public, well, Im thinking it would be good for tracking link partners, ensuring that the links are still there and keeping and managing a link database of partners.
Sounds good. next week perhaps.
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