Richard M. Smith wrote: > Any opinions on this move by Comcast against POBox.com? ...
My first was "Hmmm -- so SPF is not working?"... > ... Have any other > email providers or ISPs been hit with this same ultimatum by Comcast? Are > other ISPs also trying to play the heavy against smaller email proviers? Dunno, but it's kinda nasty one of the larger sources of spam demanding those forwarding Email to inboxes on their servers have spam filtering in place (presumably to eas the load on Comcasts own filters??). > I also don't see how this change cuts down on spam messages going to Comcast > customers. It does however, block spam messages which originate on spam-bot > infected PCs belonging to Comcast customers. pobox.com is a forwarding service. You may currently use Comcast as your ISP (say) and have the account/Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] But, because you've been bouncing around the net for ages and long ago got sick of all the hassles of changing all your mailing list, on-line newsletter, etc, etc details each time you moved, changed ISP, etc, etc you setup an account at pobox.com and use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as your only "public" Email address. Now, when you move ISP, you simply log into your account at pobox.com, change your "real" Email address and pobox.com stops forwarding [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and starts forwarding it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
