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Virgin.net stands to make thousands from cockup

Virgin.net stands to make thousands from cockup

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Virgin.net, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTL, has been keeping mum on that problem for the past two weeks until various sources singled out the particular issue.  Since the 10th of October, users of Freeola and Fasthosts who routinely forward their emails to Virgin.net accounts have reported lost and bouncing emails.One user said that he forwarded emails to its Virgin.net account from six other domains and lost quite a few of those.Virgin.net users still have to go...



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