And in other news...
Yahoo bounced another email back to me. I've read their FAQ, and they're insisting it's not their fault (naturally.) Given that the bounced email includes timestamps of when they tried to send it, maybe it's not. Maybe these three ISPs (those I've had problems with) simply don't like Yahoo. *bang head here*
At Yahoo's recommendation, I've emailed one of the other ISPs (to the 'postmaster' address) forwarding a copy of the bounced mail. We'll see if they reply. In the meantime...I've created another gmail address.
I now have seven email addresses. Seven. One from work, two from my ISP, two from Yahoo (one free, one paid) and two from Google. (Why two? Because one is under 'rynogeny' my online name, and one is under my real name. I prefer to keep the two separate.)
I've not given up on Yahoo yet, but if you care, the new Gmail account is lastname.firstname@gmail.com (Someone apparently already has a yahoo account with my first name/last name in direct order. Given that the spelling of my first name is fairly unusual, I find this a bit odd.)
And in yet other news...Chicago is supposed to get 5-7 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon, when I've got friends flying in. *crosses all available appendages that the flights will get in okay and roads home will be passable*
At least neither of them are flying United, which is currently having a complete meltdown. They're insisting it's due to last weekend's storm (which didn't affect the other major Chicago airlines that severely...hmmm) but their pilots say it's because they refuse to staff adequately.
Bits from the Tribune's coverage of the United mess, posted late last night:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-071227united-story,1,2388081.story
"For three days, United Airlines has operated like a carrier under siege from the weather, canceling more than 600 flights and scrambling to rebook thousands of passengers during a peak travel period.
The skies have been clear since Monday, but the turbulence has continued.
United said Wednesday that it is still recovering from the ice and wind that lashed Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last weekend, leaving pilots and planes out of position when operations resumed on Monday.
According to its pilots union and other sources close to the airline, United has run low on crews to fly its planes. That's a result of lean staffing, scheduling practices and freakishly bad weather that have caused large numbers of pilots to hit the maximum number of monthly duty hours allowed by federal regulators well before December's end.
"The weather wouldn't have mattered if they had enough people," said Herb Hunter, a Boeing 747 captain at United who is a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which has been harshly critical of some of United's management practices.
Either way, the cancellations continued to pile up, with another 173 as of 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, or 10 percent of United's scheduled flights. The Chicago-based carrier also canceled 324 flights on Christmas Day and 148 on Monday, according to FlightStats.com.
For some passengers, the disrupted operations have meant long delays, uncertainty and the added stress of potentially missing out on holiday celebrations with friends or families.
Michael Janas, a Los Angeles-based architect, said that three of the four United flights that he was scheduled to take for a trip home to Cleveland over the weekend were canceled, including both of his return flights to California on Christmas Day. Told that it would be two days before United could get him back to Los Angeles, Janas eventually found seats on Continental Airlines.
"It was really an awful experience," Janas said. "I think United must have had a complete operations meltdown."
******
This isn't the first time United has pulled this stunt. They've been based in Chicago for so many years, you'd think they'd understand the concept of 'unpredictable weather' -- those of us who live here certainly do. But no. Their philosophy seems to be to cut things to the bare bones, and hey, if they can't get people where they need to be, just blame it on an act of God. It's not *their* fault that it snows in Chicago in December, now is it?
But it sure is interesting that neither American nor Southwest (both also with hubs in Chicago) have had the same kind of weather-related crisis. Can you say 'poor management'?
ETA: And now readerjane reports being unable to *send* mail to my Yahoo account. *snort*
At Yahoo's recommendation, I've emailed one of the other ISPs (to the 'postmaster' address) forwarding a copy of the bounced mail. We'll see if they reply. In the meantime...I've created another gmail address.
I now have seven email addresses. Seven. One from work, two from my ISP, two from Yahoo (one free, one paid) and two from Google. (Why two? Because one is under 'rynogeny' my online name, and one is under my real name. I prefer to keep the two separate.)
I've not given up on Yahoo yet, but if you care, the new Gmail account is lastname.firstname@gmail.com (Someone apparently already has a yahoo account with my first name/last name in direct order. Given that the spelling of my first name is fairly unusual, I find this a bit odd.)
And in yet other news...Chicago is supposed to get 5-7 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon, when I've got friends flying in. *crosses all available appendages that the flights will get in okay and roads home will be passable*
At least neither of them are flying United, which is currently having a complete meltdown. They're insisting it's due to last weekend's storm (which didn't affect the other major Chicago airlines that severely...hmmm) but their pilots say it's because they refuse to staff adequately.
Bits from the Tribune's coverage of the United mess, posted late last night:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-071227united-story,1,2388081.story
"For three days, United Airlines has operated like a carrier under siege from the weather, canceling more than 600 flights and scrambling to rebook thousands of passengers during a peak travel period.
The skies have been clear since Monday, but the turbulence has continued.
United said Wednesday that it is still recovering from the ice and wind that lashed Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last weekend, leaving pilots and planes out of position when operations resumed on Monday.
According to its pilots union and other sources close to the airline, United has run low on crews to fly its planes. That's a result of lean staffing, scheduling practices and freakishly bad weather that have caused large numbers of pilots to hit the maximum number of monthly duty hours allowed by federal regulators well before December's end.
"The weather wouldn't have mattered if they had enough people," said Herb Hunter, a Boeing 747 captain at United who is a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which has been harshly critical of some of United's management practices.
Either way, the cancellations continued to pile up, with another 173 as of 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, or 10 percent of United's scheduled flights. The Chicago-based carrier also canceled 324 flights on Christmas Day and 148 on Monday, according to FlightStats.com.
For some passengers, the disrupted operations have meant long delays, uncertainty and the added stress of potentially missing out on holiday celebrations with friends or families.
Michael Janas, a Los Angeles-based architect, said that three of the four United flights that he was scheduled to take for a trip home to Cleveland over the weekend were canceled, including both of his return flights to California on Christmas Day. Told that it would be two days before United could get him back to Los Angeles, Janas eventually found seats on Continental Airlines.
"It was really an awful experience," Janas said. "I think United must have had a complete operations meltdown."
******
This isn't the first time United has pulled this stunt. They've been based in Chicago for so many years, you'd think they'd understand the concept of 'unpredictable weather' -- those of us who live here certainly do. But no. Their philosophy seems to be to cut things to the bare bones, and hey, if they can't get people where they need to be, just blame it on an act of God. It's not *their* fault that it snows in Chicago in December, now is it?
But it sure is interesting that neither American nor Southwest (both also with hubs in Chicago) have had the same kind of weather-related crisis. Can you say 'poor management'?
ETA: And now readerjane reports being unable to *send* mail to my Yahoo account. *snort*