>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Stephens <[email protected]> writes:
Ken> Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Stephens<[email protected]> writes: >>>>>>> Ken> I have been with Qwest and now CenturyLink. I have had very few Ken> down times. Most of them caused by local power outages. YMMV. Ken> Qwest blocks port 25 so Spiritone (aracnet) gave me another port Ken> to direct my mail clients, which has been working for the last Ken> two months. [...] Ken> I've used Aracnet since '99. USWest required an outside ISP for Ken> DSL connections at the time I connected. Then QWest came along Ken> acquiring USWest. I did not use the web hosting they provided, Ken> but had to pay for it anyway. Now CenturyLink is offering DSL. Ken> I stayed with Aracnet. Sometime between then and now Spiritone Ken> acquired Aracnet. The internet evolves. Ken> Last year I tried Clearwire. That did not work our when the Ken> leaves came out on the trees, I lost signal. I went back to Ken> Qwest and got a better modem and connection. But I stayed with Ken> Aracnet (Spiritone). Nice to keep the same email address for all Ken> this time. Spiritone has an excellent SPAM filter. If your ISP is Aracnet then Qwest/CenturyLink shouldn't (can't) be filtering anything. If they are, that would be big news. If you ISP is Aracnet, then the phone company should be shuffling your bits directly to them untouched. They are strictly providing transit in that scenario and the content of the bits are strictly none of their business. I would strongly suspect that the port 25 filtering was occuring somewhere else, either at your end or Aracnet's or maybe it was a figment of your imagination entirely, due perhaps to confusing stimuli (as sometimes happens). FWIW, I also have Aracnet over CenturyLink copper and the fact that I am still getting mail implies that my port 25 is not being filtered. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
