Hello Group,

I am affiliated with the University of Oregon. I have several long
on-going e-mail relationships with people met online. For
several of these, I have no phone number or street address.
For about ten days recently, I received no message from
a friend who has an MSN account. I was getting very worried,
maybe she was sick or ill. Then I finally heard from her.
She said her messages to me were all coming back to her labeled
as undeliverable. She tried to contact UO staff, and those
messages came back. She contacted her own service
provider, and they didn't know what was going on. Then she used her
Hotmail Web account to contact me, and that went through. I
then contacted UO Computing staff. They said they had blocked
certain MSN machines in a spam control effort. I was very angry,
and said I had no idea they were doing this and users should have
been warned. I might have lost a long term friend over this.
Now I give all friends I send e-mail from my UO mainframe
accounts my yahoo address as a backup.

My domain at UO is @oregon.uoregon.edu. The friend's
domain is @msn.com.

Lee

Lee