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Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my
emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Sacha says...
Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! They must have had a glitch, perhaps had to do a restore and lost track of what they'd already sent. More concerning would be any that they have lost. I used to subscribe to a daily news email from the BBC. On one occasion they sent me the same email more than 20 times over the course of a few minutes. Ain't technology wonderful? -- David in Normandy |
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On 10/1/08 16:00, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha says... Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! They must have had a glitch, perhaps had to do a restore and lost track of what they'd already sent. More concerning would be any that they have lost. I used to subscribe to a daily news email from the BBC. On one occasion they sent me the same email more than 20 times over the course of a few minutes. Ain't technology wonderful? I don't think I've lost anything vital but over Christmas one friend kept trying to send me emails which bounced time and again. Others were having no trouble at all. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 10/1/08 17:35, in article ,
"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:02:49 +0000, Sacha wrote: Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! My next door neighbour has had problems with Orange. He reckons they resend emails when the originals are lost. If yours were not lost then you finish up with two copies. Steve In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Sacha says...
In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Best to use an email address associated with your own web site domain name. That way you own the email address and it doesn't matter who you use as an ISP or for that matter who does the web hosting. You can move and change providers as you like then. I think it may also look more professional to use an email address that matches the web site domain. I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. Odd thing was I never used that address anyway, so the spammers could only have got the email address directly from Wanadoo / Orange? Perhaps a hacker got in and lifted everyone's email address. Lots of people were hit at the same time. -- David in Normandy |
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In message , Sacha
writes On 10/1/08 16:00, in article , "David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha says... Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! They must have had a glitch, perhaps had to do a restore and lost track of what they'd already sent. More concerning would be any that they have lost. I used to subscribe to a daily news email from the BBC. On one occasion they sent me the same email more than 20 times over the course of a few minutes. Ain't technology wonderful? I don't think I've lost anything vital but over Christmas one friend kept trying to send me emails which bounced time and again. Others were having no trouble at all. Possibly your ISP had decided to blacklist their ISP perhaps because a spammer had hijacked someone's valid address on that ISP and was using it to send out spam. Happened to me. Fortunately my ISP uses static IP addresses so I was able to get mine white listed by the commonest anti spam software. -- hugh Reply to address is valid at the time of posting |
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In message , Sacha
writes On 10/1/08 17:35, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:02:49 +0000, Sacha wrote: Anyone any idea why Orange has suddenly gone berserk and re-sent me all my emails from mid December onwards, some of them 4 times?! My next door neighbour has had problems with Orange. He reckons they resend emails when the originals are lost. If yours were not lost then you finish up with two copies. Steve In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! That's the advantage of having your own domain name with e-mail forwarding. You can switch it to a different underlying ISP easily at zero cost. Domain names only cost a few pounds per annum Well worth it. -- hugh Reply to address is valid at the time of posting |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:22 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote and included this (or some of this): I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week Exactly the same here. Account now abandoned and dormant but no doubt storing up fausands of junk posts. -- ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°² |
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On 10/1/08 17:59, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha says... In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Best to use an email address associated with your own web site domain name. That way you own the email address and it doesn't matter who you use as an ISP or for that matter who does the web hosting. You can move and change providers as you like then. I think it may also look more professional to use an email address that matches the web site domain. Yes, that's going to be part of the new site that's being built now. Most of it is done and running but the mail order bits and smaller tweaks still need doing. I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. Odd thing was I never used that address anyway, so the spammers could only have got the email address directly from Wanadoo / Orange? Perhaps a hacker got in and lifted everyone's email address. Lots of people were hit at the same time. I have had over 5k of junk mail since just before Christmas. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 10/1/08 19:24, in article ,
"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:20 +0000, Sacha wrote: In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Your email address should not be tied to Orange? It looks like a host address to me. Who is the website host? Steve Pass. I know nothing about these things but I'll check. Clara, I think because Cormaic did the re-design after David Poole's and my son has simply rebuilt on that AFAIK. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 10/1/08 21:55, in article ,
"Martin" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:59:22 +0100, David in Normandy wrote: Sacha says... In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Best to use an email address associated with your own web site domain name. That way you own the email address and it doesn't matter who you use as an ISP or for that matter who does the web hosting. You can move and change providers as you like then. I think it may also look more professional to use an email address that matches the web site domain. I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. My wife has the same problem with wanadoo/orange I suspect one of their ex-staff sold their customers' e-mail lists or their computers have been hacked. It seems very likely. Thanks for all the advice everyone. By coincidence my computer guru rang tonight and will be coming up next week, if not this w/e. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:01 +0000, Sacha wrote
(in article ) : On 10/1/08 19:24, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:20 +0000, Sacha wrote: snip All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Your email address should not be tied to Orange? It looks like a host address to me. Who is the website host? Steve Pass. I know nothing about these things but I'll check. Clara, I think because Cormaic did the re-design after David Poole's and my son has simply rebuilt on that AFAIK. Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). -- Sally in Shropshire, UK http://www.freerice.com/index.php Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game |
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On 11/1/08 09:16, in article
, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:01 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 10/1/08 19:24, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:20 +0000, Sacha wrote: snip All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Your email address should not be tied to Orange? It looks like a host address to me. Who is the website host? Steve Pass. I know nothing about these things but I'll check. Clara, I think because Cormaic did the re-design after David Poole's and my son has simply rebuilt on that AFAIK. Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). Well, there's an example for you! I've had nothing yet from you,Sally. So if you've sent it please could you send again. If you haven't because you're busy, please, sit down, have a cup of tea, relax and then stroll in a leisurely fashion to your computer....... ;-)) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). Well, there's an example for you! I've had nothing yet from you,Sally. So if you've sent it please could you send again. If you haven't because you're busy, please, sit down, have a cup of tea, relax and then stroll in a leisurely fashion to your computer....... ;-)) -- Sacha ???? "" (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out)."" ????? Kind regards Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly |
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On 10 Jan, 21:55, Martin wrote:
I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. My wife has the same problem with wanadoo/orange I suspect one of their ex-staff sold their customers' e-mail lists or their computers have been hacked. The standard excuse is "it was a dictionary attack", but my mail provider, mail.com, and my ISP (f2s) manages to survive those remarkably well. whatever sort of email address I set up for my wife is attacked within a few hours of her starting to use it. I think one of her friends/ business contacts is infected with something that passes on valid email addresses. I could set up some disposables and do an elimination test, but it's more than fat and bone can bear. it's all allegedly my fault, somehow. |
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Martin says...
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:24:25 +0000, Sacha wrote: On 10/1/08 17:59, in article , "David in Normandy" wrote: Sacha says... In this instance I ended up with about four of each, including some of the Junk. I find their service has become very erratic and I think I'm going to have to do something drastic. All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Best to use an email address associated with your own web site domain name. That way you own the email address and it doesn't matter who you use as an ISP or for that matter who does the web hosting. You can move and change providers as you like then. I think it may also look more professional to use an email address that matches the web site domain. Yes, that's going to be part of the new site that's being built now. Most of it is done and running but the mail order bits and smaller tweaks still need doing. I've completely abandoned my ISP email address with Wanadoo / Orange. I don't know what they did wrong but that address suddenly started attracting 100's of spams a week. Odd thing was I never used that address anyway, so the spammers could only have got the email address directly from Wanadoo / Orange? Perhaps a hacker got in and lifted everyone's email address. Lots of people were hit at the same time. I have had over 5k of junk mail since just before Christmas. I get around 100 a day. Orange.nl provides a service to identify and isolate junk mail and viruses. None of it gets as far as my PC. orange.fr now supply a similar feature. However, the odd spam (1 in 50) still reaches the orange inbox. Since abandoning the account the only valid email is orange's monthly bill. I've only got dial up here in rural France and the Orange web site is incredibly slow to load (around 2 - 3 minutes) due to all the high definition advert images, so I rarely visit orange web mail. Or go and make a coffee while their site loads! Occasionally I go and tip all the spam into the junk folder. Knowing Orange, if the amount of spam was allowed to reach ridiculous proportions they would probably start charging for extra disk space or do they automatically delete spam after so long anyway? I change my main personal, domain based, email address around once a year if it starts picking up spam. So in practice spam isn't really a problem for me. I use a password protected email address for contact via my web site and for strangers and that completely throws the spammers. -- David in Normandy |
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:57:25 +0000, Sacha wrote
(in article ) : On 11/1/08 09:16, in article , "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:01 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 10/1/08 19:24, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:20 +0000, Sacha wrote: snip All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Your email address should not be tied to Orange? It looks like a host address to me. Who is the website host? Steve Pass. I know nothing about these things but I'll check. Clara, I think because Cormaic did the re-design after David Poole's and my son has simply rebuilt on that AFAIK. Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). Well, there's an example for you! I've had nothing yet from you,Sally. So if you've sent it please could you send again. If you haven't because you're busy, please, sit down, have a cup of tea, relax and then stroll in a leisurely fashion to your computer....... ;-)) cough What part of "prob this afternoon" didn't you understand? vbg. Back now, looking outside at thick SNOW!! Very pretty, but wondering how well stocked up we are with such vital things as spuds. However, the brandy bottle is full and we have plenty of logs, so life won't be all bad if we are cut off. Will email you in a mo. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation churchyard: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). Well, there's an example for you! I've had nothing yet from you,Sally. So if you've sent it please could you send again. If you haven't because you're busy, please, sit down, have a cup of tea, relax and then stroll in a leisurely fashion to your computer....... ;-)) cough What part of "prob this afternoon" didn't you understand? :-)) Kindest regards Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates. www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly |
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On 11/1/08 15:10, in article
, "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:57:25 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 11/1/08 09:16, in article , "Sally Thompson" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:26:01 +0000, Sacha wrote (in article ) : On 10/1/08 19:24, in article , "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:43:20 +0000, Sacha wrote: snip All that deters me is that my email addy is on our brochures and the thought of all the people I'll have to notify! Your email address should not be tied to Orange? It looks like a host address to me. Who is the website host? Steve Pass. I know nothing about these things but I'll check. Clara, I think because Cormaic did the re-design after David Poole's and my son has simply rebuilt on that AFAIK. Sacha, I am replying to you about this off the group (prob this afternoon because I'm just rushing out). Well, there's an example for you! I've had nothing yet from you,Sally. So if you've sent it please could you send again. If you haven't because you're busy, please, sit down, have a cup of tea, relax and then stroll in a leisurely fashion to your computer....... ;-)) cough What part of "prob this afternoon" didn't you understand? vbg. Back now, looking outside at thick SNOW!! Very pretty, but wondering how well stocked up we are with such vital things as spuds. However, the brandy bottle is full and we have plenty of logs, so life won't be all bad if we are cut off. Will email you in a mo. It's my birthday - I'm allowed. ;-) Somehow, I read the time on your msg. and translated it wrongly. No idea how except the phone was ringing, people were at the door and the dogs were barking like demons. Otherwise, situation normal! We've just been up to a place on Dartmoor for lunch where it was 0C and snowing quite well. The moor and some of the stone walls were just turning white as we drove home - where it was raining! It's brightening up in the west now, though. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 11/1/08 14:05, in article ,
"Martin" wrote: snip I get around 100 a day. Orange.nl provides a service to identify and isolate junk mail and viruses. None of it gets as far as my PC. snip I cleared out all my mail boxes yesterday. This morning I had 576 'caught' pieces of junk mail in my Orange junk mail folder. They hadn't reached my Mail program but of course, they're still taking up space. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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