On January 27 I stopped receiving vim list mail in my ISP's inbox. (My ISP is AT&T).
After logging in to my account in Firefox I found over 300 vim emails in my Spam folder.
After moving those to my Inbox, fetchmail was able to retrieve them for me the normal
way, but since then no vim mail whatsoever has gone into my Spam folder or my Inbox.
Calling the company you descend into automated-voice-response hell, and when you
get to a human you're guaranteed they are reading from scripts written for Windows or
Mac only, and you will never connect with anyone who will admit they are performing
spam filtering.
They offer a feature they call SpamGuard, which I have verified and re-verified is turned
off, but I receive no spam in the account at all. No spam whatsoever (!) with SpamGuard
disabled. So they are classifying spam for me, and in their infinite wisdom they have
decided the vim mail is spam and I am not to send or receive it. Yes, I tried to send to
the list an email similar to this and it never got here.
So -- anyone thinking about signing up AT&T as their ISP, specifically with the Uverse
service, consider that they will be chipping away at the services they provide and
deciding for you what you get to see. When I started with SWBell they hosted my
web page for me. Then they morphed into AT&T, and I morphed into Uverse, and
suddenly no more web hosting, oh, and they stopped serving usenet -- I have to pay
a third party for that. Now I can neither send nor receive vim mail. What's
next? Peer-to-peer comes to mind...
This is a bad trend -- AT&T is probably the largest service provider in the country,
and arguably the most pig-headed, and they seem to be on a path to reduce services
and remold the internet in their image.
Uverse does provide the best cable available -- my television works during storms,
unlike satelite providers, and while I can't claim there have been no outages, they have
less outages than cable, and are very responsive when you call about one.
Anyone with any ideas how I can get back to sending and receiving from my "real"
ISP please share...
sc
After logging in to my account in Firefox I found over 300 vim emails in my Spam folder.
After moving those to my Inbox, fetchmail was able to retrieve them for me the normal
way, but since then no vim mail whatsoever has gone into my Spam folder or my Inbox.
Calling the company you descend into automated-voice-response hell, and when you
get to a human you're guaranteed they are reading from scripts written for Windows or
Mac only, and you will never connect with anyone who will admit they are performing
spam filtering.
They offer a feature they call SpamGuard, which I have verified and re-verified is turned
off, but I receive no spam in the account at all. No spam whatsoever (!) with SpamGuard
disabled. So they are classifying spam for me, and in their infinite wisdom they have
decided the vim mail is spam and I am not to send or receive it. Yes, I tried to send to
the list an email similar to this and it never got here.
So -- anyone thinking about signing up AT&T as their ISP, specifically with the Uverse
service, consider that they will be chipping away at the services they provide and
deciding for you what you get to see. When I started with SWBell they hosted my
web page for me. Then they morphed into AT&T, and I morphed into Uverse, and
suddenly no more web hosting, oh, and they stopped serving usenet -- I have to pay
a third party for that. Now I can neither send nor receive vim mail. What's
next? Peer-to-peer comes to mind...
This is a bad trend -- AT&T is probably the largest service provider in the country,
and arguably the most pig-headed, and they seem to be on a path to reduce services
and remold the internet in their image.
Uverse does provide the best cable available -- my television works during storms,
unlike satelite providers, and while I can't claim there have been no outages, they have
less outages than cable, and are very responsive when you call about one.
Anyone with any ideas how I can get back to sending and receiving from my "real"
ISP please share...
sc
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