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The evil penguin · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:11 am Post subject: Hotmail Hanmail problems

Anybody know whats the problem between hotmail and hanmail email addresses? I'm back in Aussie now and i have received a ton of emails from students and so on (all having hanmail email addresses) but i can't reply from my hotmail address. I've opened up a new yahoo email address but still can't send to hanmail. Any ideas?

peppergirl · Joined: 07 Dec 2003

You can send mails to hanmail from a gmail address...

PM me with your email address if you need an invite.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

There seems to be two theories:

1) Korea is ground zero for spam. Hotmail and Yahoo started bouncing all emails from free Korean webmail services. In response, Korean email services bounce hotmail/yahoo. (There are a few ISPs in North America that block all email from Korean net.blocks.)

2) The Korean webmail services felt that hotmail/yahoo should pay them a fee for every hotmail/yahoo email they route to their users. Until hotmail/yahoo cave to this demand, emails are bounced or are slowed.

(My pet conspiracy theory is they scan for emails with large blocks of roman characters and bounce those, only letting emails with hangul through. But I'm sure this is crazy.)

At the end of the day, the best explanation is simply "Why? Because this is Korea." It's a great mantra for anything you encounter in Korea that makes no sense.

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

it's weird.. back home when I tried to send emails from my Yahoo to Hanmail, they bounced back as 'spam'.. once, a Hanmail address holder found my emails in his Bulk/Spam Folder after I had insisted that I had sent him a ton of messages.
This might explain why I haven't had any replies from some people with a hanmail address and no returned message either. Confused

Anyway I had virtually given up on trying to send to hanmail from both my Yahoo and Hotmail, but in the last 2 months, my messages have repeatedly and successfully got through to two different hanmail addresses...

random..

coolsage · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

Death to Hanmail, I say. This is a source of never-ending frustration for me. At my uni, I receive messages from the poo-yai or other faculty members, and my replies are invariably 'blocked for spam'. Also, I edit the student magazine, and when then they send me their contributions, the attachments won't open. This is nationalism taken too far.