Fwd: Re: Blocking port 25 --> A good broadband ISP

[Nicholas Bodley]

(I have to be really careful when replying to any BLU messages; as a  
default, Opera 8 e-mail addresse them to the original sender only. urgh.
My thanks to Jerry. --nb)

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From: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
To: "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley at speakeasy.net>
Subject: Re: Blocking port 25 --> A good broadband ISP
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:36:54 -0400

> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:05:05 -0400, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>
> > A number of major businesses are rejecting Comcast dynamic IP addresses
> > in email
>
> Speakeasy offered a fixed IP when I subscribed, and afaik, they still do.
> They also e-mail you a few days in advance of any planned downtime, and
> that's rare and for good reason.
>
> I haven't kept careful track, but Verizon ADSL seems to be a good  
> service,
> at least for Average Nontechnical subscribers. They're regional, just
> about sure, though.

[JF]:
You sent this to me and not the net. BTW: AOL is also rejecting some
Speakeasy static IPs.

[nb, new comment]

I seems that misuse of e-mail is becoming so bad that AOL and such are  
taking drastic measures.

I suspect that TheWorld.com is blocking some legit. messages and letting  
through some spam, btw. I still keep a minimal dialup shell account there,  
although it's been months since I connected to them directly. (Speakeasy  
fetches and sends The World e-mail of mine via their server.)

-- 
Nicholas Bodley  /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
Hope for these times: Paul Rogat Loeb's book --
"The Impossible Will Take a Little While:..."
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