Makes you feel any better, just saw in LJ news that they are being blocked, as well. Sez they are working on it, and in the meantime, change your email to something else. HAHA! YOU told us FIRST!
What would be really great right now is a sale where a % of the profits go towards helping out with the Haiti Earthquake relief. Or urging people to donate towards this cause and providing a link to a site that does this. (I highly recommend PIH.org although Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross are brilliant.)
Also, to anyone who might be reading this in the US, you could simply text HAITI to 90999 (The American Red Cross) and that automatically donates $10 towards the relief efforts.
We have been thinking about how to do this. This tragedy has struck very close to home for us. We are only 700 miles northwest of Haiti. I have grown up with many Haitian immigrants.
We just need to decide which charity we are going to donate and what items we will be selling.
Again, I think Partners in Health is the best organization to donate to right now for the following reasons (more or less quoted from news sources/ columns):
1) In the earthquake, the main organizations we tend to associate with the effort (including the Red Cross and United Nations) have headquarters in the capital where the earthquake struck. Those places that could have been used for relief (which includes the central hospital) are now themselves disaster reliefs. PIH, meanwhile, has "nine hospitals, staffed with more than 100 doctors and 500 nurses" that are "all miles from the quake's epicenter and escaped major damage. The organization is working to set up emergency operations in Port-au-Prince, but in the meantime has established a triage center at its headquarters in Cange to deal with a stream of earthquake victims - patients with broken bones, deep cuts and even limbs severed by falling debris." 2) They're running out of money to replace their supplies. 3) Most people are taking advantage of being able to donate via their cellphone (and doing so to other organizations, namely the Red Cross) and PIH is missing out on a lot of donations that way. 4) PIH has been working with Haiti (on the ground) for over 20 years and has been the largest health care provider in rural Haiti. Because of the disaster, it's probably now the largest still standing. 5) It also has a great model for future independence where "only a handful of Americans are involved in day-to-day operations, and Haitians run the show. Efforts like this could provide one way for Haiti, as it rebuilds, to renew the promise of its revolution."
I purchased a rename token on January 11th and have yet to receive anything on it aside from a message saying that payment was received. When I tried using the order number that was in the email it didn't work. I'm trying to use it to get a username that was deleted or purged and would like to get it before the name is taken by someone else.
I use gmail (after hotmail blocked them last time!) and am not receiving notifications. I really cannot switch providers again. There's no one left to switch to!
At the moment, yahoo!mail is NOT blocking notifs/emails. I can't speak for anyone else using yahoo!mail but throughout all the notif blocking incidents I've very rarely (maybe once or twice) had an issue, and even then it was only the occasional notif that would arrive late.
Just thought it might be nice to toss out a service that is working, if people are looking for alternatives, or even just a backup email to use in such situations.
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of these stopwasting and serverspace are still around but I have the feeling that someone hacked the account to create them.
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Which you probably already did. Thanks.
We just need to decide which charity we are going to donate and what items we will be selling.
1) In the earthquake, the main organizations we tend to associate with the effort (including the Red Cross and United Nations) have headquarters in the capital where the earthquake struck. Those places that could have been used for relief (which includes the central hospital) are now themselves disaster reliefs. PIH, meanwhile, has "nine hospitals, staffed with more than 100 doctors and 500 nurses" that are "all miles from the quake's epicenter and escaped major damage. The organization is working to set up emergency operations in Port-au-Prince, but in the meantime has established a triage center at its headquarters in Cange to deal with a stream of earthquake victims - patients with broken bones, deep cuts and even limbs severed by falling debris."
2) They're running out of money to replace their supplies.
3) Most people are taking advantage of being able to donate via their cellphone (and doing so to other organizations, namely the Red Cross) and PIH is missing out on a lot of donations that way.
4) PIH has been working with Haiti (on the ground) for over 20 years and has been the largest health care provider in rural Haiti. Because of the disaster, it's probably now the largest still standing.
5) It also has a great model for future independence where "only a handful of Americans are involved in day-to-day operations, and Haitians run the show. Efforts like this could provide one way for Haiti, as it rebuilds, to renew the promise of its revolution."
Just thought it might be nice to toss out a service that is working, if people are looking for alternatives, or even just a backup email to use in such situations.
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