Heads up: Subject: Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems (Slashdot)
[ScuttleMonkey on Slashdot:] Aviancarrier writes "Verizon DSL has turned on a very aggressive spam filter that is blocking lots of long-time legitimate e-mails. E-Mails get bounced with an error: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host relay.verizon.net[206.46.232.11] said: 550 E-Mail from your E-Mail Service Provider is currently blocked by Verizon Online's anti-spam system. The e-mail "sender" or E-Mail Service Provider may visit http://www.verizon.net/whitelist and request removal of the block.' That whitelist web page lets you request one address at a time to be whitelisted with no guarantee for their response time to process it. I have tested multiple e-mail sources and only one got through. As a VZ customer, I just spent 28 minutes on a call to tech support, eventually got a supervisor who knows nothing about the new spam feature, and would only agree to e-mail a manager who doesn't work weekends about it. I warned her that VZ has a public relations problem but she was too clueless to understand." Many users have submitted this problem so it seems to be a pretty far reaching problem. There is also a discussion going on over at Google about this problem. ... http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/24/1538205 -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
