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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) have voted in favour of national action which will cause large scale disruption for all business sectors across the UK and may already be causing delays to posted items in some areas already.
The Royal Mail is including daily news on service information for customers.
The Royal Mail has lost business to [...]

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Maybe, like me, you’ve noticed that you’ve had less junk email this week and you’ve been wondering why. News sites are reporting that a large spammer-friendly hosting service in California has been disconnected by its service providers after they were sent evidence about its activities. (Check out the “Next” links on the report [...]

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Like all visitors to the Listening to the Social Entrepreneur conference, my pack included a leaflet from a university research centre. Today it popped up on the top of my in-tray while I was making a concerted effort to clear it. The leaflet is a description of the research centre, but it included [...]

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This morning I have found out that BT have changed the outgoing mail settings for email accounts.  You can no longer user SMTP but must change it to MAIL.
As a BT customer I was not informed of this change; and the BT Broadband support representative I spoke with informed me there had been no changes.
So, [...]

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Trust me – Waking up to spam for breakfast is no fun!
Like everyone else who works with the Internet, I have seen a massive increase in the amount of spam I receive over the past years.
Furthermore, I regularly have frustrated clients asking if I can do more to filter the spam on our dedicated servers [...]

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BT have upgraded email security for their BT Yahoo! Mail accounts. The security upgrade is to help in their continued fight to prevent fraud and spam.
Anyone who uses a BT Yahoo! Mail account should have received an email from BT explaining that, as an account holder you will need to make some changes to [...]

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In the past week or so, some of my clients have been contacting me with problems sending outgoing emails. The problem has been caused by BT Yahoo!
BT are now preventing their broadband users, both personal and business, from sending emails using some non-BT email accounts. This, BT say, is for adding protection to [...]

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