From 395ea4f0587b16358aa4be946ca78577ef1756c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: meaz Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 05:20:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Remove the blocking part + some fixes --- pages/07.blog/microsoft_hostility/item.en.md | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/pages/07.blog/microsoft_hostility/item.en.md b/pages/07.blog/microsoft_hostility/item.en.md index 8aabd5e1..a19f77c0 100644 --- a/pages/07.blog/microsoft_hostility/item.en.md +++ b/pages/07.blog/microsoft_hostility/item.en.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ taxonomy: body_classes: 'single single-post' --- -As some of you might have noticed, **Microsoft** (owner of hotmail, Outlook, live.com, Office360, etc.) is rejecting all emails originating from **Disroot.org** servers. Once reported to us, we immediately contacted support at **Outlook** as it was not the first time we have been targeted by **MS** (last year for no reason, all emails from **Disroot** were marked as spam) . +As some of you might have noticed, **Microsoft** (owner of Hotmail, Outlook, Live, Office360, etc.) is rejecting all emails originating from **Disroot.org** servers. Once reported to us, we immediately contacted support at **Outlook** as it was not the first time we have been targeted by **MS** (last year for no reason, all emails from **Disroot** were marked as spam). After waiting for a reply for a few days, making sure we are compliant with 'their policies' and exchanging few pointless emails with the **Microsoft**'s support staff, we have gotten this final reply: @@ -26,17 +26,8 @@ After waiting for a reply for a few days, making sure we are compliant with 'the This means as much as "*You are blocked, we won't tell you why, and all you can do is wait for us to decide otherwise and allow your emails to arrive*". Good ol' Microsoft hostility. -We decided we won't just sit and wait for Goliath to have mercy. If they do not listen to us, perhaps they will listen to their own users. +**We are sorry** that your emails are not reaching your contacts at **Hotmail** or **Outlook** or **Live**. Searching the web for possible reasons we have learned that it is very common to be banned by MS without any reason for extended periods of time. -**If we fail to get a favourable answer from MS before November 2, we will block all emails from outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com with reject reason pointing to this blog post**. +Perhaps if their users start asking questions, **Microsoft** will finally review the reasons they have blocked us for - and maybe be so kind to explain it to us - or simply unblock. So **contact MS!**. However, you'll discover how hard it to get in touch with them! One way though is through this page: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/) -Perhaps if their users start asking questions, **Microsoft** will finally review the reasons they have blocked us for - and maybe be so kind to explain it to us - or simply unblock. So **contact MS!** - -Searching the web for possible reasons we have learned that it is very common to be banned by MS without any reason for extended periods of time. - -**We are sorry** if your emails are not reaching your contacts at **hotmail** or **Outlook**, and we would like to send our apologies to users on the other side that can't reach Disrooters, but we think this is the only way we can generate some preasure on **Microsoft** to cooperate with us and fix the issue instead of blindly reject all traffic. - -**Please, take a stand, get involved, repost and share so we can together get MS's attention and undo this block.** - -Microsoft support: -https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/ +**Please, take a stand, get involved, repost and share so we can together get Microsoft's attention and undo this block.**