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Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly - The INQUIRER
Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:21 AM
A NEW feature on Comcast which blocks email identified as spam has been causing merry hell.
In the good old days if two people decide that an email from an outfit is spam, that email will go into the junk mailbox if it appears anywhere else.
Writing in his bog, one angry customer said that recently Comcast has upped the ante and will block all email from the offending server.
The punter works for a news site and says that Comcast users that have requested daily news emails from the site and are being denied email they have asked for.
He had tried to get Comcast to look at the problem, but the outfit did not seem particularly interested. Loyal readers of the news site who have complained that their news is not being delivered have also complained and been ritualistically ignored.
After much shouting Comcast has lifted the block on the IP range. But this seems to be a problem with several US ISPs. For example, one ISP in Florida and another in California are convinced that every email from Bulgaria must be spam and is refusing to receive mail with a .bg ending.
Ironically the same mail sent from yahoo.com gets through. ยต
Source: Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly - The INQUIRER
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