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Re: Comcast plays the heavy with email providers in the spam wars
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:48:02 +1300
Richard M. Smith wrote:
Any opinions on this move by Comcast against POBox.com? ...
My first was "Hmmm -- so SPF is not working?"...
... Have any other email providers or ISPs been hit with this same ultimatum by Comcast? Are other ISPs also trying to play the heavy against smaller email proviers?
Dunno, but it's kinda nasty one of the larger sources of spam demanding those forwarding Email to inboxes on their servers have spam filtering in place (presumably to eas the load on Comcasts own filters??).
I also don't see how this change cuts down on spam messages going to Comcast customers. It does however, block spam messages which originate on spam-bot infected PCs belonging to Comcast customers.
pobox.com is a forwarding service. You may currently use Comcast as your ISP (say) and have the account/Email foobar () comcast com. But, because you've been bouncing around the net for ages and long ago got sick of all the hassles of changing all your mailing list, on-line newsletter, etc, etc details each time you moved, changed ISP, etc, etc you setup an account at pobox.com and use foobar () pobox com as your only "public" Email address. Now, when you move ISP, you simply log into your account at pobox.com, change your "real" Email address and pobox.com stops forwarding foobar () pobox com's Email to foobar () aol com and starts forwarding it to foobar () comcast com. Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Comcast plays the heavy with email providers in the spam wars Richard M. Smith (Oct 31)
- Re: Comcast plays the heavy with email providers in the spam wars Nick FitzGerald (Oct 31)
- Re: Comcast plays the heavy with email providers in the spam wars A. Murphy (Oct 31)