Unique Protection for your email
Gay S
address and stop junk mail. I've been quite happy using this service.
David Efflandt
Maybe you own it. You certainly have gone to much trouble to spam
multiple newsgroups from multiple news services about it.
A sight owned by 'Tonny Hostmaster' really inspires confidence that my
mail would be secure. ;^)
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James Z.
It lets me organize my email as well - which is important to my work.
g...@lifelines.mailshell.com (Gay S) wrote in message news:<507e06d.01082...@posting.google.com>...
Empath
After hearing of Mailshell's offer of registering domains, it
appeared to be a very good deal. On August 24, I registered
through them the domain spiritmoods.com. I gave them my credit
card information, and received a message in my e-mail with a
password, and a suggestion for changing my password. After going
to their site, I was greeted with a message that the domain
"spiritmoods.com" was being set up, and would be active within 48
hours.
Come Saturday night, August 25, a whois search indicated that it
had indeed became registered. I checked the site. The message
indicating it would be ready in 48 hours was still there. Okay,
no big deal. After all, 48 hours hadn't yet passed.
Tuesday, August 28, after several checks of the site, the "48 hour"
message still remained. I wrote to sup...@mailshell.com, asking
when the 48 hours would be considered over, and when would my
account be active. I received only an automated response that they
would be reading each piece of mail and responding, but nothing more.
Friday morning, August 31, after looking through the daily deleted
domains list at http://www.deleteddomains.com, I spotted my domain
listed as being deleted on the day before on the 30th. I immediately
went to another registrar, and registered in order to save the
domain. At the last step, I was informed that the domain was already
taken. I thought possibly, the deleted list was in error and it was
still registered to me.
Saturday, September 1, I ran a whois, just to see, and found it was
now registered to someone else. When plugging the domain into a URL,
I found it went to a porno site. I immediately contacted Mailshell,
and have had no response. Meanwhile, the "48 hours" notice remained
on my account page of Mailshell. Over the next few days,I contacted
ICANN, the new registrant's registrar, and the registrar
"Bulk Registry", which is used by Mailshell. I received a polite,
but unsatisfying response from the registrant's registrar, nothing
from Mailshell or their registrar, and a response indicating that
the courts or negotiations with the registrant was the only solution.
Meanwhile, my account with Mailshell lay dormant and unusable, and
couldn't even offer the subdomain features of their free accounts.
Mailshell's silence indicated they couldn't care less. They had my
money, and that's all that mattered to them.
Friday, September 7, I deleted my Mailshell account, still frozen
by their "48 hour notice". I burned my bridges with the account,
and sent them an email that pulled no punches.
My relationship with Mailshell lasted two weeks, which is two weeks
too long. For my money, I gained only knowledge of their ethics, and
total lack of professionalism. What happened to mess my registration
up six days after it began I don't know. But, Mailshell made no
effort to correct, nor respond to the situation.
Empath
ho...@mebb.mailshell.com (James Z.) wrote in message news:<5c7f7276.01083...@posting.google.com>...
Jeremy Howard
news:fb7c7ecd.0109...@posting.google.com...
> My Two Weeks With Mailshell
>
>
> My relationship with Mailshell lasted two weeks, which is two weeks
> too long. For my money, I gained only knowledge of their ethics, and
> total lack of professionalism. What happened to mess my registration
> up six days after it began I don't know. But, Mailshell made no
> effort to correct, nor respond to the situation.
>
> Empath
>
news:<507e06d.01082...@posting.google.com>...
> > > Here is a site that offers you a way to protect your real email
> > > address and stop junk mail. I've been quite happy using this service.
> > >
> > > www.mailshell.com
A way simpler approach is to use a service that sends any message addressed
to user+keyword@domain to user@domain. This means that you can use an email
address such as jhoward+s...@fastmail.fm when you register with
somecompany, and +somecompany is automatically stripped out on delivery.
Then if you get spam from user+keyword@domain, you can add a filter that
kills everything to this address.
A webmail and IMAP provider that offers this feature is http://fastmail.fm
You don't have to do anything to enable this feature on FastMail, it's on by
default. Just sign up at http://fastmail.fm and then start registering with
companies using user+com...@fastmail.fm as your address. FastMail also
lets you use your own domain name instead of fastmail.fm if you prefer.