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Thread ID: 64804	2005-12-28 23:00:00	Paradise Email - OMG	chuckee (5499)	Press F1

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416353	2005-12-31 08:12:00	Well me for one am really p eyed now. I have been unable to connect at all to the mail server on paradise for over 9 hours. Just times out all the time. They better be giving a refund of some kind for this kind of service	Big John (551)
416354	2005-12-31 17:59:00	It's not long ago that people were raveing about how wonderful Paradise was. Glad I stayed with Ihug :rolleyes:	JJJJJ (528)
416355	2005-12-31 20:23:00	It's not long ago that people were raveing about how wonderful Paradise was. They were when they really were Paradise and not a division of Telstra.	pctek (84)
416356	2005-12-31 23:06:00	That's why I always recommend people register their own domain name. Then they can change providers when ever they want and their email address will aways be the same. I know it is a bit of a chore, but you could always start doing it now and keep using your Paradise email address as well until 99.9% of your contacts have been informed of your new email address. :) When you pay as much as you do for internet access, it shouldn't happen. The best solution is to get a cheap hosting account and use that for email. As long as you don't go super cheap you will probably find it much more reliable than a huge ISP that doesn't really care about its customers... :rolleyes: I agree with maccrazy you should just get another e-mail address then bcc all your contacts that you know of and then just check your paradise e-mails off and on to see if anything important has come through and then you just tell them your new e-mail address and so on and then in the end you will have alerted everyone. But if you don't know everyone that e-mails you that means that you will have to keep the account up and running but that means that Telstra will still charge you for a service that you arn't really using and also a service that is really crappy. Its the same with me on Yahoo! Mail. Personally I love yahoo mail and its reliability is great but I keep getting spammed over and over again.... so what i'm going to do is change my e-mail and just check my current e-mail off and on to make sure no important e-mails are getting through. But it isn't good enough on Telstra's part they shouldn't of let this happen in the first place. Personally I think Telstra is a wee bit dodgy. ~Matt	matty3 (5363)
416357	2005-12-31 23:11:00	Believe it or not, I changed mine to yahoo ages ago, and paradise has had a lot of outages since I changed, and yahoo might not be flash, but it has never gone down on me. I always get my mail. I also am finding that different sites seem to be blocked, but by clearing the cache in tools, options, very regularly seems to get me back into where ever I hadn't been able to get into. :thumbs: I think Yahoo! is great too. I use it as my main e-mail account and its great you can also pop ur mail which is kool to, unlike hotmail where they have disabled it, they say its because of "spamming problems" ~Matt	matty3 (5363)
416358	2005-12-31 23:15:00	I reckon Paradise has just hit on a new strategy to deal with their utter incompetence in dealing with spam - they seem to have turned off their spam filters and are letting the whole lot through for us to deal with. At present I am getting nothing filtered into my spam box, but a heap of junk email is being let through into my inbox (you can check this for yourself through webmail). I am just sending the whole lot back to missedspam@paradise.net.nz - not that I have any confidence in them to do anything competent about it at present. Just a thought - presumably all ISPs are getting the same spam pressures. Why is it that Paradise seems to be the only ISP that can't cope with it, and have not been able to cope with it for months now? Shouldn't that tell them something? No other ISP I am aware of is using this as an excuse for a crap service.	John H (8)
416359	2005-12-31 23:28:00	I reckon Paradise has just hit on a new strategy to deal with their utter incompetence in dealing with spam - they seem to have turned off their spam filters and are letting the whole lot through for us to deal with . At present I am getting nothing filtered into my spam box, but a heap of junk email is being let through into my inbox (you can check this for yourself through webmail) . I am just sending the whole lot back to missedspam@paradise . net . nz - not that I have any confidence in them to do anything competent about it at present . Just a thought - presumably all ISPs are getting the same spam pressures . Why is it that Paradise seems to be the only ISP that can't cope with it, and have not been able to cope with it for months now? Shouldn't that tell them something? No other ISP I am aware of is using this as an excuse for a crap service . Well they must be multi-tasking because they are supposed to be working round the clock on fixing the problem and now they are going to check their e-mails themselves for the spam that users have sent in to them WOW!!! :rolleyes: ~Matt	matty3 (5363)
416360	2005-12-31 23:46:00	I just checked their network status and they say in the current message (which gets recycled in a variety of forms) that: “We will also be deleting all of our spam, rather than sending it onto Paradise customers’ spam folders as we usually do. This is a temporary measure, however about 60% of all email is spam, so removing it will help legitimate email get through more quickly.” So my theory is a crock of course - the reason why there is no spam in my spam folder is because they are not sending it there - they are allegedly deleting it on my behalf. Doesn't explain why so much crap is coming into my inbox!	John H (8)
416361	2006-01-01 00:15:00	I just checked their network status and they say in the current message (which gets recycled in a variety of forms) that: “We will also be deleting all of our spam, rather than sending it onto Paradise customers’ spam folders as we usually do . This is a temporary measure, however about 60% of all email is spam, so removing it will help legitimate email get through more quickly . ” So my theory is a crock of course - the reason why there is no spam in my spam folder is because they are not sending it there - they are allegedly deleting it on my behalf . Doesn't explain why so much crap is coming into my inbox! Are they allowed to do that????? Cuz that means that they are deleting your e-mail and if they made a muck up that means that your geninue e-mails rnt actually getting through . So another muck up for the brilliant ISP Paradise with its trusty sidekick Telstra Clear :rolleyes: ~Matt	matty3 (5363)
416362	2006-01-01 00:24:00	Are they allowed to do that????? Cuz that means that they are deleting your e-mail and if they made a muck up that means that your geninue e-mails rnt actually getting through . So another muck up for the brilliant ISP Paradise with its trusty sidekick Telstra Clear :rolleyes: ~Matt I'm sure there is something in the small print that lets them do that! That's wot lawyers are for I guess . . . Actually, I usually check my spam folder on a weekly basis, and I have never found a genuine email in it - only the usual junk offering me watches, larger body bits, medicaments to ensure that some body bits are (ahem) 'firmer', and a huge emphasis in the last two days on giving away my non-existent secrets related to Westpac and the National Bank of Australia . . . :waughh:	John H (8)
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