Anselm Lingnau

We moved our mail server to another machine last weekend, and since then Hotmail refuses to talk to the new one. This means that Hotmail-based subscribers to Strathspey mailing lists (including the Strathspey list itself but also lists like dancedata-friends or scddb-issues) will not be receiving mail from these lists (or indeed from myself) until this issue is resolved. I'm working with Hotmail to get this sorted but the experience is very close to kicking a dead whale along the beach.

Hotmail is currently pointing the finger at Symantec (another whale of a company), who, on behalf of Hotmail, seem to operate something called a »Brightmail Filter« – apparently messages from our server aren't bright enough or something. Hotmail promises to get back to me in at most 5 days. I'm not holding my breath. Sorry for the inconvenience.

(PSA: You really don't want to use Hotmail. Their being a Microsoft subsidiary should already tell you all you need to know about Hotmail. If e-mail providers were cars, Hotmail would be a broken-down Yugo. If e-mail providers were movies, Hotmail would be Heaven's Gate. If e-mail providers were places, Hotmail would be that unsavoury area around the train station where the drunks, petty criminals, and hookers hang out and respectable people don't like to stay for longer than they absolutely need to. If you're a Hotmail user, then do yourselves and the rest of the world a favour and find an e-mail provider that actually knows how to do e-mail.)

· Posted by Anselm Lingnau · 15 January 2014 13:43