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Re: Fully functional email address

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 18 June 2025 12:37 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Fully functional email address
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It appears that Christian Huitema  <huitema@huitema.net> said:
>> Another indication of the continued importance of email: Whenever you 
>> sign up for yet another service, you get asked for an email address.
>
>.. and you give it, and you find it that the hotel cannot actually send 
>mail to your address, because it is somehow blacklisted by their own 
>email service. Which did happen to me, with a large hotel chain.

IHG, I expect.  It happened to me, too.

I think they are uniquely broken, but I've been trying to make inquiries to see what
is going on.  What was particularly odd was that I exchanged a lot of mail with their
support department via the forbidden address, but couldn't use it to log into my
account on their web site. 

R's,
John

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