[93204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: (OT)MSN/hotmail postmaster contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Waters)
Tue Oct 31 04:42:51 2006
From: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
To: "Edward F. Klimowicz" <edwardk@voicenet.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:41:49 +0100
In-Reply-To: <45466967.9010201@voicenet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Monday 30 Oct 2006 21:06, you wrote:
>
> Is there a postmaster from MSN/Hotmail out there? Mail from my domain to
> any of yours is being junked and randomly blackholed. No progress has been
> made yet with the normal tech support.
I previously got responses from the advertised postmaster contact eventually.
But if an email provider is bit bucketing email, other than as a tactical
measure, rather than rejecting it, or quarantining it, your time is probably
better spent advising people not to use that service.
It is not as if, since AOLs Harvard email fiasco, anyone can claim they didn't
know it wasn't a stupid thing to be doing.
Since people have already told Hotmail it is a stupid thing to do, and they
still do it, they are clearly stupid, or uncaring on the matter, neither is a
good thing in an email provider.
Or as put elsewhere "real friends don't let friends use hotmail".
