oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA | reply to carnesr
Re: Seems like a one man campaign on the Comcast forum
He doesn't use Comcast. His service pay permit serving. |
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carnesr
join:2002-11-16
Sault Ste Marie, ON
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said by Nice Try5  :
Hardly. I don't even use comcast except for email I don't care to receive. I just like provoking people. I run my own email server and I've never been compromised 
Have a nice day.
sounds like you need to read the acceptable use policy, running mail servers are not aloud |
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jrst
@attbi.com
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pobox.com provides a great service--one email address that never changes, regardless of the changes in the ISP landscape. Which is invaluable to those of us who have been using the Internet (and email) since dirt. I suggest you look at pobox (or a similar service), and the reasons why people pay for that service. You might learn something. |
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oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA |  reply to Nice Try5
LMAO |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD | reply to Jetta392
Hey, I got friend who's cousin had an ex-wife who's brother-in-law responded to one of those and he said it worked.
So don't come on here telling me it's not true. |
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Jetta392
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join:2002-07-14
Martinsville, NJ | reply to Nice Try5
Stop going to penis enlargement sites and you won't get any spam! LOL  |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD
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said by basarman :
That's great, except the services being mentioned do not have a reputation for being used by spammers.
The point I was trying to get across was just that. Comcast, in their infinite wisdom, has started using a technology that obviously isn't ready for prime time. As a result, legitimate business will suffer. I still don't think they should filter at all though.
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Anyway, have you gotten any less spam over the past couple days as a result of this? I see a lot of messages on the forums from people who claim to be getting substantially more all of a sudden.
See my response above. I don't use comcast email.
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Burning down the house to get rid of the ants doesn't make sense.
Good analogy. Too funny!!! |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD | reply to jsouth
No, not a troll (well sort of). Just having fun on the day before this fine 3 day weekend coming up
It's supposed to be nice here in MD. |
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jsouth
Jsouth
join:2000-12-12
Wichita, KS | reply to Nice Try5
AHH. A troll. We see now. |
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basarman
join:2000-09-24
Sharon, MA
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That's great, except the services being mentioned do not have a reputation for being used by spammers. It's why I chose the one I did. In fact, the one I use does not provide the ability to send email from one person to another through its services (i.e., no open relay). It simply collects my email and forwards it where I tell it to.
Anyway, have you gotten any less spam over the past couple days as a result of this? I see a lot of messages on the forums from people who claim to be getting substantially more all of a sudden.
I think a solution tailored to actually fix the problem would be most appreciated. Burning down the house to get rid of the ants doesn't make sense. |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD
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Hardly. I don't even use comcast except for email I don't care to receive. I just like provoking people. I run my own email server and I've never been compromised
Have a nice day. |
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oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
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said by Nice Try5 :
If you get junk mail it's your problem, NOT MINE and others who are missing emails from comcast blacklist ips.
Actually it looks like this is your problem doesn't it?
Blacklist on Comcast! |
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basarman
join:2000-09-24
Sharon, MA | reply to oliphant5
According to a number of people who have posted and/or sent messages to me in response to some of my posts, they are blocking many private domains, depending on the servers that process their mail. |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD
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Try telling the post office to implement a spam snail-mail filter so you don't get so much junk mail in your mailbox at home.
First of all they'll tell you to jump off a bridge and second of all, I PAY for comcast mail and EXPECT to get ALL the mail addressed to me. If you get junk mail it's your problem, NOT MINE and others who are missing emails from comcast blacklist ips.
Tell a comast business account holder that you don't care if he/she losed 1000's a day because of missed emails due to comcast's buggy isp blocking email system. He/she will spit in your face.
Now go talk crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here. (-Jack Nicholson) |
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oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
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If you want unfiltered mail get your own domain mail.
[text was edited by author 2003-07-03 12:07:14] |
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Nice Try5
join:2003-04-17
Silver Spring, MD
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Why don't you just stop being lazy, or cheap, and do a little homework and figure out how to facilitate your own spam filtering mechanism. There are plenty of support forums on the web, including here at dslr that provide help and assistance in setting up filters for spam. Or you could purchase, for a nominal fee, a helper utility for your email client.
Stop asking everyone else to do your work for you. If you were naive enough to give some 2bit website your "real" email address or ignorant enough to sign up for some e-mailing list with your primary email account, then shame on you.
I, for one, don't want comcast blocking ANY email sent to me. I hate spam as much as anyone else but if someone doesn't want to look out for themselves, it's their problem not the ISPs. |
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scaredpoet
join:2001-03-26
Monmouth Junction, NJ
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That's all fine and good, but they're blacklisting domains such as pobox.com. Most poeple on pobox (myself included) use the service because it has spam *filtering* technology that you have complete control over. All of my mail goes through pobox, and if some spammer has found a way to circumvent spam filters, I can add a filter of my own. Not to mention, a LOT of former attbi users have pobox because they like the idea that if their e-mail address ever changes (and it has of course), then they won't have to sweat it because they've given out their pobox.com address instead. You just direct pobox to forward mail to the new domain and you're done.
Why comcast would block legit domains is beyond me. Maybe they just don't like admitting that their customers are tired of their e-maill address changing so often, and have to resort to remailer services like bigfoot and pobox.
Also, see:
»www.pobox.com/spam_policy.html |
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oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA | reply to ChicagoCPA
Amen. I have no problem with the blacklisting either. |
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ChicagoCPA
join:2001-12-02
Mokena, IL
| If you read the forums, it seems like two Anonymous users (could be the same person, given the wording similarity) are posting every thread where comcast has blocked an ISP. Given the amount of spam that I receive, I am pleased that there are some consequences to having spammers use your services.
As far as I am concerned Blacklist them all. |
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