| pair.com and LED |
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| Written by Rod Aries | |
| Thursday, 15 December 2005 | |
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This is not in response to anything other than the pair.com advertising that appears in each LED issue. It is sometimes easy to ignore them due to the constant drip, drip, drip nature of the ads because they are always there, and you tend to become desensitized to them - but you shouldn't. I have over 100 accounts at pair, and I have had them at pair for several years. This email is in regards to an upgrade they just installed on all their servers to fight spam. Because I have been on the net for almost a decade, and I own over 13,000 domains, I have had many of my email addresses culled, spidered, scraped, sold, exchanged and indexed, including, probably, posts I have done previously to LED. About 9 months ago I was easily receiving between 50,000 and 60,000 email each and every day. I contacted pair several months ago to see what they could do (they are actually one of the few companies that responds to support requests in not only a prompt manner, but a competent manner as well) to reduce my spam. That little "wahoo" you heard occurred when they did an interim spam filter upgrade and my spam email dropped to only 2-3,000 emails a day getting through to my Eudora account, then fighting through hundreds of filters. While that still is a good deal of spam, I was stoked to only be receiving that much - I mean how much Vl@---gra can I really order? Anyways, they just installed their latest update to their servers and I am now down to about 200 spam emails a day -- I can only imagine how much the 50,000 to 60,000 daily spams has increased. So, besides good ol' fashioned quality hosting at a cheap price with exceptional customer service, they now have given me back my computer - no more 5 minute downloads of emails every 20 minutes. As you may have understood, I am very pleased with their service, and I am not even a paid representative or an affiliate. :) Rod Aries |
