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Losing e-mail: stupid ISP
Yesterday, it came to my certain knowledge that a friend sent me a perfectly innocent e-mail with nothing resembling spam. This inspired me to investigate whether this was an isolated incident, whereby my ISP, Cytanet, government-owned had "accidentally" lost one. Today's statistics are:
24.06.2004
Cytanet All Messages
Total 76 433
Wanted 41 43
Viruses 0 44
Spam 35 346
Lost 2
Let me explain: Cytanet run a whole gamut of anti-spam and anti virus filters, so I received only 76 out of a total 433 messages that were addressed to any of my legit e-mail addresses over 3 domains. These are forwarded to Cytanet from my domain host in the USA.
Fortunately, I found I was able to forward them simultaneously to my Swiss ISP, which does not practise any filtering. I was able to run these statistics by comparing separate e-mail client accounts for Cytanet and the Swiss Blue Windows.
Today, I lost two wanted messages (so far) which I find totally intolerable. Cytanet do not offer any choice in filtering: it is mandatory.
Be warned, if your ISP filters your e-mail, you, too, may be losing e-mail.
24.06.2004
Cytanet All Messages
Total 76 433
Wanted 41 43
Viruses 0 44
Spam 35 346
Lost 2
Let me explain: Cytanet run a whole gamut of anti-spam and anti virus filters, so I received only 76 out of a total 433 messages that were addressed to any of my legit e-mail addresses over 3 domains. These are forwarded to Cytanet from my domain host in the USA.
Fortunately, I found I was able to forward them simultaneously to my Swiss ISP, which does not practise any filtering. I was able to run these statistics by comparing separate e-mail client accounts for Cytanet and the Swiss Blue Windows.
Today, I lost two wanted messages (so far) which I find totally intolerable. Cytanet do not offer any choice in filtering: it is mandatory.
Be warned, if your ISP filters your e-mail, you, too, may be losing e-mail.
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