Norm, Ed et al:

I've been using Yahoo mail services for at least ten years (I think 
they go back that far) and I cannot remember a single instance in 
which a MDOsprey message was blocked by the Yahoo spam filters.  They 
do occasionally trap messages from the Delaware and Virginia bird 
list-servs.  No idea why the difference.

I use Eudora as an e-mail client and pay the $25 a year to Yahoo for 
the privilege of uploading messages to Eudora.  I have used Eudora 
for a long time and like it a lot.  I never started to use Outlook, 
as it has traditionally been a regular target of hackers and other 
mischievous types.  I don't have much experience with Gmail.

Mike Bowen
Bethesda, MD


At 11:18 AM 5/26/2008 -0400, Norm Saunders wrote:
>Ed Boyd asks:
>
>NORM - Would you please advise if any of the free email services have the
>same issues as Comcast, MSN and Hotmail so that we may avoid them as well?
>
>
>Ed, it would appear that Yahoo and Gmail are relatively free of problems
>with excessively aggressive spam filters.  The MSN/Hotmail problems  are due
>to spam filtration which appears to have been tightened recently for god
>knows what reason but they seem to have pulled back a bit now.  Further, the
>Comcast folks who have resubscribed to MDOsprey don't appear to be having
>any problems now either.  Keeping my fingers crossed.
>
>Norm

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