{"id":174,"date":"2006-12-08T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/08\/earthlink-email\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T10:13:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T15:13:23","slug":"earthlink-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/08\/earthlink-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthlink Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/pulpit\/2006\/pulpit_20061201_001274.html\">this<\/a> would explain a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSince June, he was told, Earthlink&#8217;s mail system has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming e-mail. It isn&#8217;t bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And Earthlink hasn&#8217;t mentioned the problem to these affected customers unless they complain. The two groups affected are those who get their mail with an Earthlink-hosted domain and those with aliased e-mail addresses like my friend&#8217;s Blackberry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently, after 12 years with them, decided to cancel my DSL service with Earthlink (a combination of increasingly poor service and FIOS being available in my area).  I&#8217;d planned to keep an email only account so I didn&#8217;t have to set up a massive rerouting of everything.  Glad I saw this.  And it certain does explain my frustrations with some of my email.  As Cringley (author of the linked piece) points out &#8211; what kind of business is run like this?  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWere they thinking these thousands of affected customers simply wouldn&#8217;t notice? And what about those customers whose livelihood depends on e-mail communication? There are both ethical and business questions here and Earthlink doesn&#8217;t look good on either scale. Fortunately the company says it is installing new software and hopes to have the problem resolved before the end of the year. Lucky us.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lucky them.  I&#8217;ll be out of that boat in short order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this would explain a lot: Since June, he was told, Earthlink&#8217;s mail system has been so overloaded that some users have been missing up to 90 percent of their incoming e-mail. It isn&#8217;t bounced back to senders; it just disappears. And Earthlink hasn&#8217;t mentioned the problem to these affected customers unless they complain. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}