> Ahhh! This was only half right. A two hour conversation with a
> tech supervisor last night clued me in. Cox is moving under
> threat of blacklisting from AOL and "others".
Sound like they've been threatened with a UPD (Usenet Death Penalty)?
> By the way, I don't have a spam problem on anything but my
> ancient AOL address that I use for web forms and my wife's
> hotmail. Even my canadisp.net address does not have problems,
> because I've only given it to reputable organizations like brlug
> and the fsf.
I'm very happy for you then - however at work we get about 300 to 400 spam
emails per day because we have several public email addresses such as
postmaster, hostmaster, admin, sales, info, support, etc., plus my personal
email addresses. All of which, as a business, I can not change. Most of
these addresses have been collected via 'bots from our web pages or public
listserver postings.
> The spiders have yet to pick it up out of the list's html
> records.
It will happen - in the meantime, if you'd like a first hand view of the
problem, I'd be happy to redirect our spam-filter catch-of-the-day to you
... <grin>.
> Not one piece of spam anywhere but AOL and M$, they have nerve
> to tell others how to run things.
Frankly, I don't see what the big deal is about the Cox decision - there are
alternatives out there (locally Bellsouth and EAtel offer very good ADSL
service) and it's their network. It doesn't seem like a big deal to work
around...
Edmund Cramp
--
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
-- Blair Houghton
