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 How long does it take to receive a reply to my email?
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We do our best to respond to all email that we receive in a timely fashion. We appreciate it when those that we do business with respond prompty, and know that you do, too. We try to treat you the way that we like to be treated. We have full time staff working on email M-F, 8-5 Central Time (holidays excluded). You will receive a response within 24 hrs during normal business hours. Messages sent after 4 pm Friday through Sunday, will be answered before the end of the business day on Monday (holidays excluded).

If you have not received a reply from us in a timely manner as stated above, there are several possibilities why:

  • We did not receive your email.
    If you sent us an email using your own email system, check your SENT folder for the email and verify that you sent it to a valid Laridian email address. Support issues should be sent to support@laridian.com.
  • If you used the Laridian trouble-ticket system you should have immediately received a response stating that we received your request for help. If you did not receive that response then we probably did not receive the ticket. Please try again.

  • Our reply has been returned (or "bounced") as undeliverable. This can happen for several reasons:
    1. Your return address is entered incorrectly.
    2. Your email box is "full" and your ISP rejected the message (this is most common with Web services such as Hotmail and free services such as Juno).
    3. Your ISP blocked our reply as suspected SPAM. This is becoming a growing problem, and is discussed more fully below.

     

  • A SPAM filter that you have installed moved or deleted our reply before you saw it. If you have installed a SPAM filter, then check the settings and its folders to verify that it hasn't prevented you from seeing the reply. If it moves the email to a different folder, scan through that folder looking for our reply.

     

  • You are using a Challenge/Response SPAM prevention method. We do reply to challenges; however, we've found that some ISPs such as Earthlink delete the request if we don't respond to the challenge within a certain time frame. By the time we receive the challenge and respond to it, the challenge may no longer be valid and the original e-mail has been deleted by your ISP.

     

  • Your original e-mail looked like SPAM or an e-mail containing a virus. Avoid sending e-mails with no subject line, or a subject line of "hi" or "error" or some other nondescript subject line. Especially during times when a new e-mail virus is spreading, your e-mail may be classified as one spreading the virus. During new virus outbreaks, as much as 95% of the e-mail that we receive is junk mail or virus attacks. Use a specific subject line to make it clear that your email is legitimate. And, unless specifically requested by a technician, do NOT attach anything to the message.

What We Try To Do

If you issue a challenge to confirm that our reply is not SPAM, we reply to the challenge. If our reply is returned as undelivered, we attempt to find out the problem and fix it if we can. If we can, we resend the reply to you. For instance, if you entered your e-mail address as John123@oal.com, we may guess that the correct address is John123@aol.com and try to send to that address. If our reply is returned as undelivered and we cannot seem to get a reply to you via email, we may attempt to call you using the telephone number provided in your customer account (assuming we can find your account based on the information in the message). Unfortunately, we cannot always determine the cause, or find your phone number, or may not even know that you didn't receive our reply. So, before concluding that we aren't responding, please check the causes above. If all else fails, please call us. You may find that we actually have responded, but you didn't receive our response.

A Growing Problem: Some ISPs Filter Your Email

Some internet service providers (ISPs) block incoming mail from sites they think may be sending spam. Most techniques for doing this are extremely overzealous. For example, one ISP we contacted was blocking email from all addresses hosted by a particular large provider because they once received some spam from one address at that provider. Another blocked all email from Web sites hosted with a certain large hosting company. These massive censorship techniques are easy for ISPs to implement but are disasterous for customers. ISPs are beginning to come under fire now from the computer media for blocking the free exchange of email, but use of these techniques is still increasing. If you don't receive a reply from us to an email you send, it may be because your ISP is blocking our replies. If your ISP is blocking us we have no way to get a message through. If you do not receive replies after repeated attempts to contact us, you should contact your ISP and complain. Also try reaching us from another email address, or inform us that you've tried several times and perhaps we can try sending from a different address. Or click here for information on how to contact us by phone.



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Article ID: 99
Created On: May 27 2004 12:08 PM

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