Icesave / TalkTalk / FSCS Fiasco

Paul_Herring

It is widely reported about 50% of the emails were blocked as spam across numerous ISP email services not because those spam filtering services were deficient in their construction but because the email house used for this email

Cite please? Postings from MSE don't count.

NonGeographicalMan

Paul_Herring wrote: »

Cite please? Postings from MSE don't count.

Why not? Where else is there going to be any readily available source of information?

Paul_Herring

Because 'all these people' on MSE making the claim about hearfrom are presumably getting their information from somewhere, or, cynically, perhaps they are all repeating some rumour someone posted in another thread, in which case it can't be true.

I'd rather read first hand reports from a reputable source, rather than chinese rumours posted on here.

~Chameleon~

Blah99 wrote: »

Read receipts are extremely unreliable. They are processed as extension options by the recipient mail client, so it's trivial to stop them being sent. Many corporate mail systems automatically strip the receipt option from the mail header before delivering it to the recipient.

Not only that but the recipient has the option whether to acknowledge having read the email too. If you click "no" or "cancel" then the sender has no idea whether their email has been read or not

~Chameleon~

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

It is widely reported about 50% of the emails were blocked as spam across numerous ISP email services

Widely reported where? I've never heard such reports! :rolleyes:

Even my small unofficial poll that I conducted last week put the results at around a third of people having issues with the email being treated as spam therefore twice as many people received the email without a problem. Not sure where you get 50% from.

Money_Grabber13579

Blah99 wrote: »

About 200,000 IceSave customers, that would be about £76,000 to send everyone a first class letter.

So it costs over £2.50 to send a first class letter these days does it, eh?! Inflation must have gone crazy.:D

jd84

£76000 / 200000 = 38p each
not
200000 / 76000!

Temrael

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Even my small unofficial poll that I conducted last week put the results at around a third of people having issues with the email being treated as spam therefore twice as many people received the email without a problem. Not sure where you get 50% from.

And those people who reported an issue didn't say they didn't get the email they just indicated it was caught by their spam filter. In most cases it was probably not blocked, it could have just been routed to their bulk or junk folder.

That's what those folders are there for, no spam filter is 100% and the quality/accuracy is down to you or your ISPs efforts to keep it up to date. If you don't get an email but thousands of people do, the problem is not with the sender.

monkeydog

My msn email picked up the fscs email as spam. Guess what, i clicked my spam folder and moved it.

Jesus, how do some people dress themselves in the morning.

Ready_2

I did not get a read receit after sending a blank email in answer to the 1st email, and I am also confused

suesie999 wrote: »

yes but did you actually get the read reciept as opposed to the email with content?
Also did you get a read receipt when you replied with your blank email to their 1st email? I have that facility on mine and did not get the actual read receipt