Gene, On 11/18/05 01:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:30, Rogério Brito wrote: > >>This attitude would punish a lot of users, "thank you". For example, >>since they are my ISP, I'm using them as a relay. > > And "open" relays should be banned. Period.
I'm not using them in any illegal way. As I said, they are my ISP and I have to route all my mail through them. They don't have the best practices around (actually, I could, myself, administer an ISP much better than they can---and, in fact, had done so for some years, when I was beginning my M.Sc. degree), but the guilty part here is just an stupid user using the (stupid) challenge-response "antispam protection". > Nevertheless Rogerio, we are not impressed and from discussions on > other lists, this particular ISP has left a bad taste in everyones > mouth. Each of us has various methods of dealing with this, and ATM > I'm forwarding all such messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its no doubt a > black hole, but... I don't know if that's exactly a black hole, but you can also try to address your messages to, at least, two other addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that forwarding he offending message(s) would be the effective way of dealing with this issue. Nice to have people from other countries irritated with their behaviour. It's a pain not to have Usenet access for serious newsgroups like sci.math, comp.theory, comp.text.tex, comp.lang.c++.moderated, comp.lang.c.moderated and comp.emacs. > If your messages are not getting through, then your choice as we see > it, is to lean on your ISP and loan them a clue. > Bat optional, but I'd take one along. Your call. Yes, getting a bat clue would help, but the customer support is so bad that I can't even speak with those that would make things happen---the "barrage" of stupid call-center monkeys always ask me "But sir, can't you navigate the web"? If I had other options, I would indeed consider them. But thanks for getting them the feedback needed. Perhaps they will listen to people from other countries. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]