On 8/30/10 11:35 AM, DoctorBill wrote: > My incoming E-Mails are being rejected by some 'filter' that the ISP > uses to cut down on SPAM. > "Client host [xx.xx.xx.xxx] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net" > (I placed the x's to not give the address.) > > My wireless ISP Provider says w/o that 'service' they'd get millions of spams > a day. > > I don't like this however...who are they to be selecting what I can receive > or not. > > I'd rather my SM Spam filter be working (which I can control). > > Is this practice becoming the norm ? > > I don't want to have to obtain a second phone line ISP just to get my E-Mail > w/o > it being filtered. The Tech rep is becoming truculent about it - like "go > somewhere else then!" > > I have many people tell me (pissed off) that they cannot get thru to me ! > I teach and my students have to be able to E-Nail me. > > I might even miss that message telling me I just won the Lottery. lol. > > DoctorBill
My ISP -- Internet Specialties West (ISWest), a southern California regional ISP -- uses Mail Guardian, a version of CanIt by Roaring Penguin Software, Inc. Mail Guardian allows me to review what it thinks might be spam and to tweak its settings for my own account. See also my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/spam.html>. I connect to the Internet through a RoadRunner cable modem because no broadband provider in my area will offer other ISPs wholesale rates for broadband. ISWest hosts my E-mail and Web service. I don't even use RoadRunner's DNSs, just its connection. My only alternative for broadband was AT&T DSL. But neither RoadRunner nor AT&T can provide the services that ISWest provides (other than broadband). Among those services from ISWest is a user-oriented spam filter on the mail server. Also, ISWest allows me to have a shell account on my name-space on its Web server to facilitate maintenance of my Web site, including testing scripts; few other ISPs would allow me to login to their Web servers for this. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
