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ISP RoadRunner Must Give Up Identity of User Claimed to Slander Public Relations Society of America’s Bolton

A New York judge has ruled that Internet service provider RoadRunner must reveal the identity of a customer who sent email to the Public Relations Society of America’s board of directors, claiming that the Public Relations Society of America’s executive director, Catherine A. Bolton, was not fit for the position….

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AOL Instant Messenger Mail Now Available – Taking AIM at a New Market

AOL’s previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger and email service. As Aunty has…

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Yahoo Sued for Failure to Remove Dirty Pictures of User

According to Cecilia Barnes, men have shown up at her place of employment in Oregon expecting to be able to have sex with her. Which is odd, because she’s not a sex therapist or a prostitute. Perhaps less odd, though, when you learn that, at least according to Barnes, her…

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AIM Mail: AOL Jumps on the 2Gig Webmail Bandwagon with AOL Instant Messenger Mail

With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the “free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage” bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account. AOL Instant Messenger Mail (AIM Mail…

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Yahoo Matches Gmail’s 1 Gig of Storage, But is it Too Little Too Late?

Yep, they’ve finally done it. Yahoo has matched Gmail’s watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of email storage. According to the splash screen at [Page no longer available – we have linked to the archive.org version instead] https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/brick-wall/, “By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to…

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Do You Suffer from Email Domain Shame? Many AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo and Other Users Do

Have you heard about “domain shame”? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legion of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame? The term “domain shame”, recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the “@” symbol in your email address.

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Goowy Mail: It’s webmail! It’s a desktop client! It’s two, two, two look-and-feels in one!

From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail service, which you can access from any Internet connection with a web…

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Comcast Experiences Widespread Outage, Again, and Again, and Again

Internet provider ComCast experienced a widespread outage today, knocking countless Comcast customers off the Internet for the duration. The notice on the Comcast website is short and to the point, acknowledging the outage by saying “Connection to the Internet is currently unavailable. Our technicians are aware of the situation and…

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The End of MSN for Mac

MSN for Mac OS X will soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft has announced that they will no longer be offering or supporting their MSN service for Mac OS X, effective May 31st of this year. Said a Microsoft representative, “Beginning May 31, Microsoft will make changes and…

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Will Read Your Spam for Money

Scott “I’m going straight” Richter wants you to know that he has a sense of humour, and so he sent Aunty this story from the Onion to share with you all: Immigrant Laborers Hired to Delete Spam SAN DIEGO—Executives at Gortman Consulting are hiring immigrant day laborers to delete their…

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Verizon Sued for Blocking Email from Around the World

Verizon Online is being sued by their subscribers for blocking incoming email from entire countries.

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Microsoft Offers Outlook Bundled with Paid Email Service

Microsoft announced today that it is about to start offering a stand-alone version of Outlook, separate from Office, which includes both a copy of Outlook and a subscription to either a Hotmail or MSN email account. In September Microsoft discontinued its service which had allowed users to connect to their…

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Panix in a Panic as Entire ISP Domain Gets Hijacked

Internet service provider Panix.com found that their entire domain was hijacked over the weekend. The ISP, which serves the greater New York City area, found that the domain had been moved from their own registrar to one in Australia, that their DNS pointed to a site in the United Kingdom,…

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Inside Source: “Verizon is Blocking Inbound Email from non-U.S. Sites”

Word on the street was that Verizon for some reason known only to them had decided to block all (or at least nearly all) email which was not sent from inside of the good old USA.

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Is Verizon Blocking Incoming Email from Non-U.S. Internet Domains?

Rumours abound that Verizon.net, the ISP branch of telecommunications company Verizon, Inc., is blocking inbound email communications originating from outside of the United States