Re: OT: mail server blocked

I personally think the approach of blocking entire ISP is stupid. I've
been unable to send Tom mail for quite some time (and others on this
list) because all of XO.com is block. We have a rack in their chicago
datacenters with all our own equipment that's managed by us. With all
the spam being sent from everywhere, i'm amazed people who take this
approach don't just block 100% of their mail from everwhere and never
get another email. This idea of good / bad ISP is a little misquided
when you come down to the practicality of things.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 01:02 AM, Tony Grant wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 00:55, Ronald Chmara wrote:
>
>> <soapbox>
>> Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated
>> that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of
>> the
>> black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the
>> *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting
>> the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra.
>>
>> Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again!
>> </soapbox>
>
> Wanadoo was the only provider of aDSL until very recently. Some of us
> don't have the luxury of choosing their ISP.
>
> I have just signed with 9telecom and am waiting (like thousands of
> others) to have my account activated. They are 15 EUR/$ cheaper per
> month and they will soon be offering 1024 Mb aDSL for less that the 512
> Mb I have now.
>
> You can bet that at that price you will soon be blocking spam from
> their
> domaine as well as Wanadoo...
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony Grant
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