I agree with you and I am going check it out with my ISP. This is the first
time I've run into this. df
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Another Happy Linux User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Don/Bernie mail failure


> Don,
>
> You would do well to accept what Burgess has told you.  He is totally
> accurate on this.  For reasons as he stated, an ISP can get blacklisted,
> buy just about anybody, or even from faulty "scanning" scripts from the
> blacklisters themselves.  It is easy as hell, to get blacklisted, hard as
> hell to get off the list.  Some just time out, others require the ISP to
> jump through a "million" hoops first.  Some people just don't care how
> much trouble they cause.  (the bad guys)....
>
> As Burgess said, talk to your ISP, (nicely), and let them know the
> problem.  They should fix it for you, without you getting a whole bunch
> of spam...
>
> (for what it is worth, I hardly get any spam, - but I take precautions,
> and that is a whole other story).  (simply, - don't browse with
> javascript "on").
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorgen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 2:22 pm, Burgess Howell wrote:
> > At 11:43 AM 9/25/2003, you wrote:
> > >Send me an email without an attachment from knology.net directly to
> > > me, not through shoptalk.
> >
> > That is exactly what I did and it bounced.  It was a plain text message
> > that said "Don, can you read this?"  I can do it again and post the
> > bounce message here if you want.  It is verbatim the same as what
> > Bernie posted here.  Your domain has blacklisted every member of
> > knology.net.  And others, I'm sure.
> >
> > >Now we all know there is no good spam filter. He office girl spends
> > > anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a day just sorting through the
> > > shit. Sorry, I want no part of it.
> >
> > Using just the tools in Eudora (not very complicated or sophisticated)
> > I catch virtually all the spam I receive.  On any given day, I receive
> > something between 300 and 500 e-mails.  Probably half that is spam.  It
> > takes no more than 5 minutes to check and delete.
> >
> > If your friend is paying his secretary a half hour's wage to read spam,
> > he's not spending his money wisely.
> >
> > JMHO, again, and thanks for allowing me to be welcome to it.  I
> > appreciate all the little kindnesses I can come by.
> >
> > Burgess
>
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