From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: January 29, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: getting around email blocking?
>
> Leo,
> Hello Leo. I have just discovered your site and hope you can
> answer a question that has been raised by me for almost a
> year. I use AOL as my ISP and MSN Hotmail for my e-mail. For
> many,many months I have had difficulty sending Hotmail
> messages to AOL acoounts. The are returned Delay and then
> Failure. Having spoken to MSN and AOL on sveral occasions,
> they tell me they are aware of the problem and are trying to
> soart it out BOTH companies are blaming each other !! More
> recently I am getting the same difficulty sending Hotmail to
> NTLWORLD. which makes me think IT IS HOTMAIL themselves that
> are the culprits. Have you come across this problem elswhere
> and what can I do to rectify the situation other than kick
> hotmail into the garbage bin after several years and use
> another service?.
I have run into this problem. In fact one of the big mailing
lists I moderate is suffering this problem with AOL right
now.
Sadly I really don't have an answer for the common user.
The postmasters for the various services need to get their
acts together.
You can at least stack the deck in your favor with some
of the ideas in these articles:
http://ask-leo.com/why_is_my_mail_to_this_person_not_getting_through.html
http://ask-leo.com/why_am_i_not_getting_the_email_i_signed_up_for.html
Goog luck.
Thanks for asking,
Leo