Comments on: Yahoo Mail Issues http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/ life and technology on the north coast of california Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Aaron Antrim http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29017 Aaron Antrim Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:34:55 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29017 I very strongly recommend Google Apps for your domain (https://www.google.com/a/) It's basically Gmail@yourdomain.com with other services like calendaring thrown in). Mail never seems to get delayed and the spam filter is excellent. POP access is free. All my clients - cityofarcata.org, hcaog.net, humboldtlafco.org - like it, and I've really enjoyed using the service for green-wheels.org and my own sites. Some webmasters and users really don't like address munging (admin «at» hta.org), but I still do it. After having accounts fill up with spam when i didn't munge my address, I've made sure new addresses don't go up on any sites unmunged and it's meant I receive only one or two spam messages a day (hard to believe, I know). And by receive spam messages, I mean that figure includes spam that gets caught, too. I very strongly recommend Google Apps for your domain (https://www.google.com/a/) It’s basically Gmail@yourdomain.com with other services like calendaring thrown in). Mail never seems to get delayed and the spam filter is excellent. POP access is free. All my clients - cityofarcata.org, hcaog.net, humboldtlafco.org - like it, and I’ve really enjoyed using the service for green-wheels.org and my own sites.

Some webmasters and users really don’t like address munging (admin «at» hta.org), but I still do it. After having accounts fill up with spam when i didn’t munge my address, I’ve made sure new addresses don’t go up on any sites unmunged and it’s meant I receive only one or two spam messages a day (hard to believe, I know). And by receive spam messages, I mean that figure includes spam that gets caught, too.

]]> By: Bob http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29015 Bob Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:03:09 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29015 I'm not so sure about that. The system we use has almost no false positives that I have seen. So, I don't believe I am missing any crucial email. Also, I see maybe 3 spam messages per day that slip through. But that's way better than 100-200 per day I would probably see without the filter. It's true that it's nearly impossible for spam filters to be perfect. But some are very good. And for the most part, my email works quite well. I’m not so sure about that. The system we use has almost no false positives that I have seen. So, I don’t believe I am missing any crucial email. Also, I see maybe 3 spam messages per day that slip through. But that’s way better than 100-200 per day I would probably see without the filter.

It’s true that it’s nearly impossible for spam filters to be perfect. But some are very good. And for the most part, my email works quite well.

]]> By: Fred Mangels http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29014 Fred Mangels Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:45:50 +0000 http://talkingtech.net/2007/09/30/yahoo-mail-issues/#comment-29014 I'd suggest that people can't really rely on any other e-mail, either. There's just no way to get the spam filters right. I’d suggest that people can’t really rely on any other e-mail, either. There’s just no way to get the spam filters right.

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