[sdiy] [OT] emails blocked to AT&T

[anthony]

That is too fucked up. I am glad I have a groovy little small-town DSL 
provider: Smithville Telephone Co. Do to bell-busting legislation they got 
to provide DSL service before anyone else in town, which is funny because 
their customers are all rural or semi-rural. Their coverage area is quite 
large and growing larger. This fact was noticed by Second City and they did 
a sketch based on it! "Conquering the World One Telephone at a Time"

I get high speed DSL and unlimited long distance along with regular phone 
servive for $75/month.

ISP's being overly proactive in spam filtering is obviously symptomatic of a 
desire to conserve their assets at the cost of customer satisfaction. 
Because even with the best spam filtering software on your home computer it 
still has to leap-frog through all of those servers and gateways and 
what-not.

The thing I can't understand is if spam is so universally detested why does 
it continue? I mean it must work or the perpatrators would stop doing it. 
Unless it really isn't advertising but a hostile attempt to disrupt the 
smooth operation of the Internet.

But blocking a whole domain to eliminate spam is like cutting off your 
finger because it itches. You still have 9 other fingers that can itch and 
toes too!


Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "groovyshaman" <groovyshaman at snet.net>
To: "sdiy group" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: [sdiy] [OT] emails blocked to AT&T


> FYI - I haven't received an email from sdiy in over a week.  Found out 
> that AT&T in the US is blocking all emails from xs4all.nl because it has 
> been blacklisted, and they will not remove the filter unless the owner of 
> sdiy makes the request directly to AT&T.  This is apparently a new AT&T 
> policy for spam filtering. :(
>
> -George
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