Hello all, Thanks for the replies. I now understand it is a widespread problem. What to do about it, I don't know! Regards Brian Smart

Dear All, I suggest you ditch NTL and find a more friedlier IP. I've heard many horror stories about NTL and also AOL, both are a pain up the backside as far as monitoring e-mails are concerned. Yours sincerely, Adrian Jervis >-- Original Message -- >From: "Brian Smart" <brian.smart@blueyonder.co.uk> >Subject: Problems with NTL >Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:07:45 -0000 >To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > > >Hello all, >Thanks for the replies. I now understand it is a widespread problem. What >to >do about it, I don't know! >Regards > >Brian Smart > > >==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== >Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions and Archives >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/FreeUK/FreeBMD-Admins.html > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ Christmas gift ideas and festive features - visit the Tiscali Christmas microsite. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/christmas

I think that the problem is that when NTL started their spam-trapping it slowed things down, and incoming emails would time-out before getting through to NTL, and bounce back. This was particularly true of some free ISPs that seemed not to attempt to send a second time if a timeout occurred, but gave up. This paraphrases information obtained when emails from my daughter were bouncing. I know that some mail to me bounces, but have never found any of the missing mail in the spam folder NTL provides. Yahoo groups mail gets through rather irregularly. The only case I know where NTL settings were at fault in failing to deliver my emails was rectified several weeks after I complained. That was to an ISP in Germany. In general, the wording on 'bounces' usually gives clues as to why the bounce has occurred. The more information you can give to an ISP help-desk from a 'bounce' the more likely they are to be able to avoid it recurring - if they want to. This is my understanding of the situation, which may not be wholly correct. Any of my transcribers who has had messages to me bounced - try try again! They usually get through in the end. If not, send a discreet message to this list and I will provide an alternative email address to contact me. Jeff

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Coleman" <jeff.coleman@ntlworld.com> > In general, the wording on 'bounces' usually gives clues as to why > the bounce has occurred. The more information you can give to an ISP > help-desk from a 'bounce' the more likely they are to be able to > avoid it recurring - if they want to. > My yahoo groups email all had the same error message and when I relayed this info to the ntl help desk all they could say was that they knew it was happening but hadn't been able to resolve the situation. Lynda