Jonathan Clark

Vice President, Marketing & Design

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Wasn't Email Supposed To Make Life Easier?

Friday, February 24, 2006 03:20 | posted by: jonathan

Email issues account for around 95% of all the calls we receive for technical support and 99% of the time the problem is not with our email server. So why does sending and receiving email have to be so troubling? Well, it really isn’t once you understand how email works on the Internet.

For the vast majority of people right now, the real e-mail system consists of two different servers running on a server machine. [More]

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AOL: Outsiders Be Gone!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 20:57 | posted by: jonathan

Filtering out unwanted email is necessary in today’s online world. However, some Internet Service Providers seem to take matters a little too far. America Online (AOL) recently adjusted their filtering process (again) to restrict the types of emails its users can receive, but not send.

First off, AOL’s email is very easy to use and a great choice for the novice or infrequent user and can be very helpful for monitoring a child’s Internet safety. The problems arise if you are utilizing email to exchange files and web links, as most business users will have a need for. Other issues can arise from forwarding emails from other addresses and sending “bulk” addressed emails like a distribution list in an Outlook address book. [More]

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