MY PROBLEM I WTH EIRCOM. THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT. JACK On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Jan wrote: > I have had problems sending emails from Comcast to eircom. I spent a > good > deal of time communicating with Comcast. They gave very complex > directions > about getting the OTHER person to follow a certain process. I asked > how I > could get this information to the OTHER person if my email did not go > through. (I do have a secondary email address and used that. The > person > followed all of the directions and the email got through to me, but > only for > that one time). I called Comcast again and was told that if an ISP > does not > have enough filters for spam, Comcast will not accept mail from that > ISP. > That was the case with eircom. Regardless of the pros and cons on this > issue, that seems to be the bottom line. Comcast suggested that if > enough > eircom subscribers complained, eircom might add more filters. > Comcast said > that most of the viruses that are really damaging tend to come from > overseas. Recently I have begun to get email from eircom, but I > don't know > if that will continue. I also was not able to get an Australian ISP: > optusnet. > > I think one solution, although not perfect, is to have an > alternative email > address: hotmail or yahoo or gmail come to mind. If someone sees your > comcast address on a message board and tries to email you directly > you would > have a problem, but the alternative email address helps with those you > regularly correspond with. > > Was it eircom you had difficulty with? Or was there also another ISP? > Jan > > > janfortado@comcast.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <countycork-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:00 AM > Subject: COUNTYCORK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 24 > > >> >> >> Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ >> It is a good place to find information related to your family >> research. >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Problems Sending Emails to Ireland (John Keating) >> 2. Problems Sending Emails to Ireland (John Keating) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:47:57 -0500 >> From: John Keating <jkeating2@comcast.net> >> Subject: [CO CORK] Problems Sending Emails to Ireland >> To: countycork-L@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <EB96A617-4FB7-4018-97A3-4248EDB8BF38@comcast.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:50:27 -0500 >> From: John Keating <jkeating2@comcast.net> >> Subject: [CO CORK] Problems Sending Emails to Ireland >> To: countycork-L@rootsweb.com >> Message-ID: <DBA2B8C4-5E85-425C-A48B-E0D04879B352@comcast.net> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed >> >> Over the past year I've experienced problems using COMCAST >> to try to send Emails to Ireland and from the other end they >> experience >> obstructions in replying through COMCAST. >> Has anyone else experienced similar problems. >> Please respond. >> Jack keating >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To contact the COUNTYCORK list administrator, send an email to >> COUNTYCORK-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the COUNTYCORK mailing list, send an email to >> COUNTYCORK@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and >> the body >> of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of COUNTYCORK Digest, Vol 5, Issue 24 >> ***************************************** >> > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family > research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message