Email fail

I have been a Paradise Net email user for years with several different Paradise Net email addresses (including one for my business).

Imagine my surprise when I read in the media that Vodafone was shutting down all email services as at November 30. The reasons given were that they had issues with spam and delayed email delivery that they were unable to fix. I certainly experienced that!

The article noted that an email would be sent to enable one to select another email address (e.g., Gmail, Outlook etc.) to forward Paradise Net emails to after the shutdown. So long as one remained a Vodafone customer, the auto-forward would remain.

I was dismayed not to have received any such emails before reading of the shutdown in the media. Surely customers should be the first to be informed?

I normally access my emails using an email client on by PC, tablet, or smartphone, but occasionally, I do check the account via webmail. Guess what? Perhaps the most important emails Vodafone has ever sent me - the links to set up auto-forwarding - were caught by the Paradise Net spam filters and never reached my inbox.

Unbelievable! What further proof of ineptitude is needed? Zealand’s democratic political process and also what I hope is common Kiwi decency.

September 23rd is coming and it is then that ‘‘we the people’’ can express our support or disapproval for our politicians and their policies.

I amnot a National supporter and I’m still undecided about how I’m going to vote. However, if recent ‘‘brown shirt’’ style politics are any indication of the morality of the new ‘‘PC left’’, I think I’d rather keep the ‘‘old guard’’ in government for just a little longer. proposal, resorts as usual to letters full of invective and name-calling.

Rather than offering solid counterpoints and writing in a reasonable and civil way, Jim describes opponents to the Link as ‘‘card-carrying neo-Luddites’’, saying they "froth" and "burble", and concludes by telling proponents of better traffic management and urban planning to "shut up and try to get real". I have to give Jim credit - he’d get top marks in a creative writing course.

But after so many years of letter writing, surely it’s time for Jim to realise that arguments are won with facts, not a thesaurus.