----- Original Message ----- From: "NR1DX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:55 PM Subject: ISP Spam filtering (Re: [Dx4win] Registration still not received:)
> At 08:35 AM 2/7/03 -0500, Pete Smith wrote: > >At 07:18 AM 2/7/03 -0600, Bruce wrote: > > > >>I still see spots where people have received their email registration > >>with 24 hours. Mine has not shown up after 10 days. What is going > >>on??? My bank cleared the VISA transaction over 8 days ago!! > > > >Bruce, I presume your message will get the desired response from > >Steve. It sure sounds like a clerical error. Keep in mind he's only one > >guy, has a real job too, and has probably been swamped since the new > >release went out. > > > >Another ominous possibility -- my ISP recently proudly announced that it > >is "helping" me handle SPAM by filtering based on sites of origin. No > >info on how they choose those sites, but they said they stopped 43 percent > >of all e-mail during a recent test. 43 percent! I get a lot of SPAM, but > >not that much. It seemed likely to me that they are stopping some stuff I > >want, so I opted out of the filtering. > Pete, Have a look at your own protection to secure. Just experienced it, Guy ON4AOI sended me a msg annexed the the KEY, but it took me half an hour before I realized what was going on. Hope this can help some one. Jos on4kj > Pete > > My (former) ISP did the same thing, except they never bothered to tell me > they were doing it, I lost two consulting contracts and as a result I > changed ISP's and am suing the former one. This is a growing trend among > ISP's because the Spam clogs up their server capacity (not because they > "care" about you). While I think Spam and Phone solicitation should be > outlawed it is not the place of the service providers to decide who you get > email from. It amounts to the same thing as the phone company screening > your calls > > Dave H > > > >73, Pete N4ZR > >The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 1 Feb 03. > >Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Dx4win mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > Dave > NR1DX > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "A man who picks a cat up by the tail learns a lesson he can learn no other > way" .... Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > >
