Friday, July 4, 2008

Note for Nancy [private message]

Nancy: I receive all your emails from Australia, but I can't send you emails from France, because your computer won't accept them. I tried to do so a few days ago, but Big Pond wouldn't deliver it... or maybe couldn't, for technical reasons. So, this blog remains [as always] a convenient means of communication between us. You might look into the idea of using the comments facility. Your grandson could show you how this gadget works.

3 comments:

  1. I'm getting indications that Optus and Free are also trading punches, withy my emails returned, and I'm wondering if attempts to bypass the problem by using web-based mail (ie Gmail) have reached you.

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  2. Ron: Please let me know if ever Free or Wanadoo were to fail to deliver an email sent from Australia. It's a good idea, as you suggest, to have a gmail address. Mine, incidentally, is

    william.skyvington@gmail.com

    For the last three years, I've often run into problems when trying to send emails to Australians with Big Pond accounts.

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  3. Bill: As Gmail-to-Gmail reached you, it looks like it provides the way to avoid the Free postmaster's rejection of email direct from Optusnet/Bigpond servers (because of their having sent too much spam to Free users). I'll resend the original rejected messages via Gmail now.

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