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First off I’d like to thank all the spammers out there that have thought to themselves, “Hmm, I bet I’ll get a bigger response if I blindly send out as many emails as I can to people… hehe, I’ll be rich!” –greedy bastards!  It’s these fuck-nuts that have basically ruined email for the rest of us.
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Well I can’t blame them but man, ISPs have basically throttled down email so much that I cannot for the life of me send a legitimate email to a legitimate company without it either getting bounced back or filtered out of existence.  Honestly, it’s my wife who’s having the problem, but still… what the fuck?  

So we have this cleaning service (not pronounced maids) that was great their first visit.  My wife and I were basically in awe over the job they did (Team B rocks!).  Then, their next visit (not Team B) left us wondering what they actually did.  At first glance things looked good but we later discovered that too much was left dirty.  And for what we pay them, that’s unacceptable.

Because of this, my wife writes up a nice email stating that we were less than pleased.  Once it’s complete, she tries to send it from her me-nikk.com account (an email server I administer) and it immediately bounces back.  Eh, this happens because my mail server uses a dynamic IP and we’re used to it.  She then tries to send it from hotmail.com… no luck.  Then our last option, our ISPs email… and wouldn’t you know it, it can’t get thru either.  Yahoo has locked down their email so much, that we cannot get thru to this company.  

Now I’m left wondering, what good is email if I can’t email anybody?  Unless of course I’m on your super-happy-fun-list of acceptable users!