Great advice.

AOL has a long history of blocking domains for no reason, so it's well worth checking if your ISP has gone off on a similar tangent. They may have upgraded software or changed setting on SpamAssassin on the server recently.

If it is blocking LJ and you can find no way to unblock it, there is a workaround. Create a Gmail account and change your LJ contact to send stuff there. Gmail is the better option over other free accounts, because you can easily set it up to access your email via Thunderbird or Outlook or whatever rather than the browser interface.

Gmail isn't like Hotmail... I love it.

For one thing, I *NEVER* get spam there, for another, instead of deleting your messages, you "archive" them, where you can find them later need be w/ a search. :)

Not to mention, your space is constantly growing. :D

Let me know if you'd like an account, I've got tons of invitations left, lol.

While you can use any other account, Gmail is one of the few free webmail services that offers free POP access. If you don't want to access your webmail account from a webmail interface and would rather suck it into an application on your desktop, then Gmail is the way to go.

There are third party applications that will allow you to gain POP access to Hotmail and Yahoo, but thanks to both services making major changes recently, that service is currently brunk for a lot of them.

I've got Gmail invites too, but I think it may have opened up recently.

Gmail has some neat tricks. You can create email addresses that you can then easily filter. For example, if you wanted to sign up for something but was a bit leery of the source, you could use the address username+mailinglistname@gmail.com. If you started getting spam to that address, you just set the filters to auto-trash anything sent to that address.

And with 2GB of space, there is software out there that lets you mount your Gmail account as a hard drive.

w00t! You have alerts again.

I'd lean towards your complaint doing the trick. Someone has updated spam filters at the ISP and they are being too aggressive. Until you complain, nothing will be done.

If it happens again; run through your checklist of mail tests at your end (can you get any mail? grab a bunch of us on your flist to hit a test post with comments to test if it's working or not), check if it's an LJ issue (are other people getting comments? is it a known issue on lj_maintenance or status?), then assume it's the ISP at fault.

Gmail is waaaay better than Hotmail. Don't ever put those two words in the same sentence again.

I guess I'll have to remember to do the "track this post" thing for any comment I make, until the problem gets fixed or forever -- whichever comes first.

I just finished checking my blocked senders list, and didn't see LJ on it. Still, just in case, I listed the LJ domain on my whitelist. Verizon has done that to me before -- they actually refused to let anyone from my work send e-mails to my home address, and it took me forever to correct it.

I did manage, after a bunch of fumbling around, to find those -- but unless I'm reading it wrong, it doesn't seem to show comments that were made in response to my comments that were made elsewhere ... *slaps head* I have no idea what I just said. But I think what I'm saying is that I still have to go searching for comments, instead of having them automatically sent to me -- and I'm lazy. :-)

I've heard Dresden Files is really good, but I just don't have time to get into any more shows at the moment. The problem's going to just get worst, because I'm getting satellite toward the end of this week. Now I'll have to choose not only among the network shows, but everything else out there!

I'll probably end up with the Weather Channel all the time. :-)

Well, it was until Battlestar Galactica hit me with that cliffhanger, anyway ... so cruel.

I read it --! And if you think about it, if I didn't expect anyone to reply I shouldn't have made the post!