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.'

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

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.'

"Sacha" wrote in message
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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


Was that person in the same position as me cruising? I had some problems
from time to time with Satellite links on Cunard's Queen Victoria. All
worked out OK in the end though :-))

Kind regards

Mike


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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.'

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.'

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.'

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

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.'

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