freaken Roadrunner now limiting me to 1,000 outgoing emails/day
 

I send losergrams to all my jerky boys on an infrequent basis. But when I tried to send the losergrams this weekend Roadrunner shut down my account after the first 1,000 outgoing emails!

They are automatically "throttling" outgoing email supposedly to cut down on spam and virus emails. I'd like to freaken throttle them.

At midnight I was allowed to send emails again, but big deal. At 1,000 a day it's going to take me like all month to send one email to my list.

So now Time Warner wants me to upgrade to a commercial account. On top of what I'm paying for premium cable, HBO, MLB, tivo, and roadrunner residential they want another grand a year just so I can get the level of service I have had for the last couple years.

I can afford it but I don't want to pay if I can find a workaround. Any solutions guys?

Also I just saw Farenheit 911 so this email throttling pretty much effectively shuts down any mass grassroots political email lists on roadrunner huh.

paranoidly and pissed-offedly yours,

Susan
Humiliatrix.com



p.s. here' s what the flak catcher in "customer care" in virginia sez:



On 6/29/04 1:12 PM, "Executive Response Center" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for responding. I understand that you are experiencing
> problems with your email where you are getting blocked from sending
the
> high quantity of messages that you wish to send. There has recently
been
> an email throttling initiative put in place to help reduce spam email
> and mass virus emailing.
>
> The current limitation restricts a single Road Runner IP address from
> sending to more than 1000 recipients per day. I will bring your
feedback
> to our Security Manager where this system can be reviewed for future
> updates to the network.
>
> Thank you for your understanding as this has been put in place to help
> reduce the amount of unwanted spam and viruses that originate from the
> Road Runner servers. I do fully understand that you are not sending
out
> viruses or spam. However, it is impossible for us to know for certain
> that all of our customers have secure systems that are not spreading
> viruses or spam without their knowledge.
>
> You can still send email using the Road Runner webmail interface
located
> at webmail.rr.com when experiencing the block. You may also wish
to
> consider a commercial account if you send large amounts of email on a
> regular basis. For more information on commercial accounts you can
> contact the account specialists at the phone number below.
>
> If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this or any
> other aspect of the Road Runner service please feel free to contact me
> directly via email at [email protected].
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dom Pare
> Road Runner High Speed Online
> Corporate Customer Care
> [email protected]
>
> Phone support: 845-692-6794 or 800-431-8878
>
> ************************************************** *********
>
>
>
> Original Message Follows:
> -------------------------
>
> Hi I need to send out a newsletter to a couple thousand people - it is
> NOT
> SPAM and it is NOT a virus like your FAQ says - but now my rr account
> has
> been blocked for outgoing mail! What should I do?? How can I prevent
> this
> in the future?
>

Awwwww pwoor spammer.

Umm, why not just send the emails off your server?

Yes. Real hosting is sooo expensive. :1orglaugh

Send them off your webserver.

lurk much? :glugglug

I can smell you a mile away.

SPAMMER!

wtf did you also type in all the names from a printed out list? dude get some mailing software and quit using roadrunner

Right, want to send out a couple thousand emails and it isn't commercial or spam?

Sure, we all believe you.

They sent that notice of the new policy and only allowing 1000 emails per day at least 2 weeks ago....maybe more.

I don't see a need to send more than 1000 from my personal email account. IF I send any mass emails to customers/members or what have you, I use my server based mail.

Why not do the same?

Ivy

What's the problem? You can still send them by webmail :1orglaugh

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

It's not spam. It's a solicited losergram, it only goes to losers who ask for it. I don't spam. N'kay?

So I will have to figure out how to use the damn server-based email.

Thank you for your assistance and good night, gentlemen.

Time warner can kiss my ass. I am happy as hell to be with a different ISP. I miss all the movie channels but I can just get a a dish for that and honestly I think the DSL we have now is much much faster and more reliable. We run 2 PC's and a PS2 all online at the same time and there is no lag. That seems pretty damn good to me.

should be "an idiot" not "a idiot"

I think I speak for all of us when I say, that's not it


It is still commercial

DSL is not faster than cable, not even close

I thought the same thing which is why I was with time warner through all the problems then I spent a couple weeks on a local DSL company in this area and I am now running more now on this DSL then I did on the cable modem and its not lagge donce where the cable lagged alot....just my personal experiance.

Exactly, SSH to your server and send all you want, RoadRunner will never know the difference.

I use Mojo/Dada mail to send to my mailing list which is in the thousands, and I use RoadRunner. (other than price I am a happy RR customer)

Mojo is free and allows for double opt-in so RR can't say a word about it

they should limit everyone to 1 email a day. Everyone would get alot more work done. If they cant go to the page to check for updates then they dont want/need the email

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Get DM wiht proxies on a dedicated server :)