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Wendy Grossman: Breaking the kneecaps of email
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:15:10 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob () drzyzgula org> Date: June 5, 2005 8:09:41 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Wendy Grossman: Breaking the kneecaps of email Dave, For IP, if you like. --Bob Drzyzgula <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23703> | Breaking the kneecaps of email | | net.wars | | By: Wendy M. Grossman Friday 03 June 2005, 17:29 | | I SHOULD be grateful to Verizon. Really. | | No one answers email any more. And Verizon | keeps me from being paranoid about it. | | Four months ago, I wrote about the problems | I had emailing my agent at Verizon. At the | time, the company admitted that, yes, it | was blocking email, but denied that it was | blocking entire geographical regions. For | spam protection, dontcha know. | | But, Verizon said, whatever blocking it | was doing was all right because it was | instituting a whitelist. All my agent – | or any other Verizon user – had to do was | submit my address and they'd remove it from | the block. | | Hahahahahahaha. | | That was in early January. I can report | that as recently as three days ago, email | sent to her from my London-based home | mail server still bounced. She herself | says that email from Africa reaches her; | email from Europe generally doesn't; email | from Asia sometimes does. She has tried | to whitelist her European correspondents | with varying success. Some, like me, never | get whitelisted. Some get whitelisted, and | then mysteriously drop off the whitelist | after a little while, unpredictably. I have | workarounds: I email her from addresses I | have on AOL, CompuServe, or The WELL, all of | which are based in the US. They all arrive | successfully. Anything sent from UK-based | addresses fails. | | Last Friday, just for grins, I tried | again. Unlike previously, when the first | bounce wouldn't arrive for four hours, | it now bounced immediately. | | It said: | | [...] ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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