[Gllug] how do i report spam?
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 16 21:10:40 UTC 2006
On Thu 16 Feb, Ian Northeast wrote:
>
>
> Verizon are the ISP who once blocked mail from most of the world outside
> the US, not by rejecting it but by firewalling. Rather like AOL, they
> appear to specialise in overzealous and ill advised spam "prevention"
> tactics while at the same time being responsible for much of it.
>
> They have backed down a bit on their firewalling but last time I checked
> (not very long ago) I still couldn't send to them direct from this
> static Demon address, and have to route mail to Verizon via Demon's
> smart host. Initially this was blocked too. Unfortunately I have a
> friend in New York who uses Verizon (I have suggested that he change) so
> I need to be able to send them mail.
>
> I would not expect such a company to pay a lot of attention to a genuine
> abuse compaint.
>
> Regards, Ian
>
They appear to. (I have just returned a junk email to Korea that had a
forged Verizon address).
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Chris Bell
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