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Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by John Murphy

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 09:58, you wrote: > Obviously :-) , sharing the info with Redmond would *HAVE* to > enhance your service experience! > > Incidentally, I also found > "Click to find out more about Paul Allen's Wired World (TM) > just above that "Rules and Policies" link > so Charter and Micro$oft seem to be in bed together :-) > Life is full of surprises! > > doug I had known Paul Allen was a partner in Charter Cable. Was surprised when I read back over a year ago that earthlink had formed a partnership with Charter Communications. Actually I was orginally on Earthlink before I switched to Charter Cable. After I had Charter installed I called Earthlink to cancel my account, they said there was no need to. They said I could be connected to Charter Cable but still maintain my billing with Earthlink. At that time Charter in Worcester had just come online a few days. They did not have my area of Worcester on Earthlink's list yet. Rather then getting caught up between the two I just cancelled Earthlink. Now I don't know if Earthlkink supplies the actual network for Charter? Or something else might envolved? John -- "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by doug waud

Hi John Stoffel wrote: > So how do we check easily? I went to Charter's web site http://www.chartercom.com/ourstory/ourstory.asp and found a "Rules and Policies" link which took me to http://www.chartercom.com/site/rules.asp where they try to spell everything out. I could not see where passing your info onto Microslop clearly fitted in :-) I did find "Charter requests certain personal information at the time you subscribe to Charter Pipeline. Charter requests your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. The personal information is used to manage your account for billing purposes. It is not shared with a third party, except in very limited circumstances such as is required by law or in order to enhance your service experience." Obviously :-) , sharing the info with Redmond would *HAVE* to enhance your service experience! Incidentally, I also found "Click to find out more about Paul Allen's Wired World (TM) just above that "Rules and Policies" link so Charter and Micro$oft seem to be in bed together :-) Life is full of surprises! doug

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Keith Wright

Please don't send HTML to the wlug list, especially not fugly HTML. > From: "Thomas Carey" <tcarey70(a)hotmail.com> > > <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> > <P>Nice Soprano's/Godfather reference!<BR><BR></P></DIV> > <DIV></DIV> > <DIV></DIV>>From: Wesley Allen <WALLEN(a)CHARTER.NET> > <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org ... > <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM305401/15'>Click Here</a><br></html> Can't make me! -- -- Keith Wright <kwright(a)free-comp-shop.com> Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop <http://www.free-comp-shop.com> --- Food, Shelter, Source code. ---

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Charles R. Anderson

Please use plain text, not HTML. Thank you.

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Thomas Carey

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken -- SOLVED

by Skip Gaede

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote: > > At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > > >Folks, > > > > > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > > >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > > >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > > >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > > >black hole. Would you believe I mistyped my email address in setup? I had sgaede(a)attbi.comt The extra "t" was the culprit... Sigh...

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Skip Gaede

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote: > At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > >Folks, > > > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > >black hole. > > Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still > subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed > addresses. > They have my new address! (Sorry, should have said that...)

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Doug Chamberlin

At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: >Folks, > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a >black hole. Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed addresses.

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Chuck Homic

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:59:40PM +0000, sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > black hole. Is your SMTP server an AT&T one, or are you trying to use SMTP service from another site? Most sane sysadmins will not allow their SMTP server to relay mail off-site (because spammers abuse this lack of security), but will accept mail for local users. For this reason, you have to use your ISP's SMTP server. (Or an open relay, I suppose.) I use this configuration when I access work email from my RoadRunner connection. I am able to get mail from my work POP/IMAP server, but to send, I have to use my local RoadRunner SMTP server. (Which is often broken, BTW!) > Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the > mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation > receipt the only choice? Well, this rarely works, so it's always a bad choice, I think. ;) The best way is to make sure your SMTP is properly configured, and that delivery errors can be locally delivered back to you. (If that made no sense, hopefully someone else can explain it better? ;) ) -Chuck

March 19, 2002

Outbound email broken

by sgaede＠attbi.com

Folks, I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole. I'm sending this from the web-based client at ATTBI.com, so I'm pretty sure this one's going to make it. Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation receipt the only choice? Thanks, Skip P.S. Additional info: I'm running Mandrake 8.1, with InteractiveBastille for setting up the firewall. I have a private LAN behind the firewall, so it's probably because I didn't answer one of the questions correctly while setting up the firewall. Do I need to enable inbound SMTP connections? I don't think so. (I have a registered IP name, but not a static IP address.)

March 19, 2002