30 Jan
2002
30 Jan
'02
9:09 a.m.
While sometimes the ISP's are in fact spammer friendly, most of the time
it's incompetent admins who leave an open relay condition in place through
neglect or ignorance. And even then, most of the time it is the system admin
of an end user of the ISP, not the ISP itself.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb(a)deltasoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: spam/avoidance of
Easy fix. Use hotmail to tell your friends to use
ISPs that aren't so
spammer friendly that they get blacklisted.
g.
On 30 Jan 2002, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Speaking of SPAM, this may be a little off-topic, but it does peratain
> to computer collecting and restoration, in that e-mail is somewhat
> necessary for such activities. Have many others found that their ISPs
> are blocking entire domains and that legitimate e-mail is refused
> (bounced) with a "go away" error message? I'm all for limiting SPAM,
> but the blocking out of entire domains of legitimate ISPs is as bad as
> the SPAM; it's equivalent to the telephone company blocking out
> incoming calls from entire area codes, or regions, because of
> telemarketers and seems to defeat the purpose of e-mail, or the
> post-office banning the delivery of mail from entire zip-codes or
> regions.
>
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