+2Wheel'in Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Is anyone else experiencing slow PQ responses and late (or no) InstaNotify e-mails? Probably due to heavy weekend use/load I suppose, at least I hope that's all it is. Regards, Bill Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I'm with AOL and started this thread on the UK forum. I'm having a nightmare getting my GC.com emails through, some arrive immediately and others are taking up to 48 hours to arrive. This apparently is not affecting everybody, so is it the server, or is Groundspeak having problems sending to certain members? I'm not lloking to proportion blame on anyone, I just want my emails. Link to comment
+2Wheel'in Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 I'm with AOL and started this thread on the UK forum. I'm having a nightmare getting my GC.com emails through, some arrive immediately and others are taking up to 48 hours to arrive. This apparently is not affecting everybody, so is it the server, or is Groundspeak having problems sending to certain members? I'm not lloking to proportion blame on anyone, I just want my emails. Pretty much the same here...TB movements seem to arrive immediately, InstaNotify and most PQs arrive late (one generated this morning arrived immediately, while I'm still waiting for one that generated yesterday - the 26th). Also never received new cache notifications of 2 caches placed over the last 3 days. I've clipped and pasted the routing details of some of the delayed messages in a Tech Support Request message to AOL...will see what the results of that are. Regards, Bill Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 (edited) If you search back through the forums, you'd find that AOL is infamous for throttling incoming emails from geocaching.com. Apparently a lot of emails are sent to AOL members and they throttle them "to keep from overloading their servers." Just be glad they don't reject them all as spam Edited February 27, 2006 by Lil Devil Link to comment
+Team Teuton Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 No AOL here, and my last New Cache Notification was was delivered more than 24 hours after I found the new cache. Link to comment
+2Wheel'in Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 If you search back through the forums, you'd find that AOL is infamous for throttling incoming emails from geocaching.com. Apparently a lot of emails are sent to AOL members and they throttle them "to keep from overloading their servers." Just be glad they don't reject them all as spam Si...I did look back through similar postings in the forum...I queried AOL and they (naturally) assured me that they are not "throttling" mail. I have other e-mail accounts that I might try dumping a PQ to, or listing as POC for Groundspeak e-mails. Funny though...I receive TB movement messages immediately, but watched cache notification messages, Insta-Notify, and PQs are delayed...they're all from the same ISP...so ya got me! Regards, Bill Link to comment
Elias Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Yeah, AOL is throttling us again. There are thousands of emails in queue for AOL. Right now, it looks like the average delivery time per email is on the order of between 12-16 hours. If you're not an AOL user and you are having mail delivery delay issues, please send me a PM and I'll look into it for you. Elias Link to comment
+sawblade5 Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I saw the tip on the other thread but I can't sign up for Gmail and I cant get the code to my phone. If someone can PM preferably a invite code it will be nice. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 sawblade5, I sent you one since I already had your email address. Link to comment
+sawblade5 Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 (edited) sawblade5, I sent you one since I already had your email address. Thanks I need the new account because AOL will start blocking all outside commercial emails unless you pay them money. So therefore I need a new account to migrate too. See the article at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/131..._Rebellion.html for what I mean. Edited March 1, 2006 by sawblade5 Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 They haven't done it yet. We'll see. If they do it will be just another nail on the coffin for AOL. Link to comment
+2Wheel'in Posted March 1, 2006 Author Share Posted March 1, 2006 Thank you all for the replies...dealing with AOL on this issue has been, how should I say - "taxing". AOL's practice of "throttling" high volume mailers is very frustrating (especially in this case), and probably not the best method for reducing SPAM. It may cost them dearly in the long run. I no longer have delayed PQs or Insta-Notify messages...opened a Gmail account and now use that exclusively for Groundspeak/Geocaching.com communications. Regards, Bill Link to comment
Jeremy Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 I have 99 more invites for anyone that needs a gmail account and is an AOL user. The thing that annoys me about AOL's approach to email is that they don't take into account legitimate high-volume emailers like us who are sending out weekly requested emails. The idea of taxing us to send requested emails as a "solution" is rotten. Though I see it as a useful way to combat legitimate spammers. It's not as if we change IP addresses weekly - they could easily spot us out of a sea of SPAM with little difficulty. Based on the throttling that goes on now I can only come to the conclusion that their facility for transporting emails to their customers is so poor that they have to come up with uniquely poor solutions like throttling and email taxes. They should focus more on their customer needs. /waits for Groundspeak criticism Link to comment
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