It appears that Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >> Another indication of the continued importance of email: Whenever you >> sign up for yet another service, you get asked for an email address. > >.. and you give it, and you find it that the hotel cannot actually send >mail to your address, because it is somehow blacklisted by their own >email service. Which did happen to me, with a large hotel chain. IHG, I expect. It happened to me, too. I think they are uniquely broken, but I've been trying to make inquiries to see what is going on. What was particularly odd was that I exchanged a lot of mail with their support department via the forbidden address, but couldn't use it to log into my account on their web site. R's, John