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It'd be strange for them (or a third-party customer management service) bother blacklisting Fastmail – isn't Fastmail a paid service (i.e. less likely to be use
by danso 7y ago
It'd be strange for them (or a third-party customer management service) bother blacklisting Fastmail – isn't Fastmail a paid service (i.e. less likely to be used by freeloaders, or by people making throwaway accounts)?
In any case, no matter how much they want to squeeze money out of new users, the NYT has more incentive to not have a super strict blacklist, or overly onerous sign-up process. Signup numbers are still metrics that a company vice president/middle manager can brag about, and NYT's initiative of mandating free registration seems much too new (e.g. as a comparison, they had totally free access for more then a decade, then a leaky paywall for several additional years) for them to already have hard enforcement policies in place.
- jolmg 7y ago> It'd be strange for them (or a third-party customer management service) bother blacklisting Fastmail If it's not a blacklist, I think it'd be even stranger for it to be a whitelist, precisely for the reasons you mentioned. mzkply's comment makes me think that it might have to do with Fastmail's email aliases, which is the closest thing they have that's like Mailinator (an email provider that is frequently blacklisted for signups), but I don't think it's similar enough that this makes sense. I agree with everything you said about NYT's incentives, but that leaves the question raised by this experience. I opened up a chat with NYT to ask about it, but I was left waiting for an agent there for an hour before I decided to just close the chat.
- floatingatoll 7y agoSafeway.com won’t let me use an email address @pobox.com. I have no earthly idea why and their support is untrained to discuss it, but they have server-side tests that are rejecting it.