Big deal. You can't get your "ISP" to do anything except change your credit
card number.
You and any other semi-savvy user of at&t broadband internet knows that
their idea of ISP is about the same as AOL, only worse - it's designed to
keep idiots happily bouncing between beers, just like TV. You want to
access your email? must be directly attached to OUR network. Wait, doesn't
that I in ISP stand for INTERnet? You want to what? FTP to your webspace
from where? Ha! must be directly attached to our network, this isn't the
internet at all! You want our web server to show a directory listing? Ha!
too standard a treatment; please design your web page using our idiotware,
and yes, you must be directly attached to our network to do so, no internet
access. for those files you'd like listed as a directory, please create an
index.html containing that list, with links. oh, and the files will STILL
be unavailable!
And guess what? that direct connection is available only via their coax tv
cable; no dialup is even available! No problem, your business is important
to them, so
while 1 <> 0
complain to [log in to unmask]
receive a nice reply "Thank you for contacting us. Your business is
important to us. If you have any further issues, please contact
Customer
service." (and not even an acknowledgement of your complaint)
endwhile
I thought the speed would be worth the headaches and frustration, but now
I'm seeing 30-second response times when hitting Enter in Qedit via VT-MGR
(a pretty tiny packet, and the response is a pretty tiny packet too). Is
this why people are unhappy with big corporations?
Thanks, Bruce, for the sendmail tutorial.
Tracy Pierce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:14 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT - new SPAM technique...how's it done?
>
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> Since Bruce has given a detailed explanation of how this can
> be done, you
> (John Lee) might consider, and might even enjoy, reporting
> that spam thru
> www.spamcop.net using their free reporting service. Be sure
> to check the
> Technical detail reporting check box when you report, and the
> resulting page
> will show you an analysis of the SMTP header.
>
> I've been able to use this information to write some spam
> filtering rules.
> And I keep wondering just how hard it would be for major ISPs
> to perform
> more of this validation. For instance, almost all of the spam
> I receive at
> work first passes thru someone's open relay, with most of these abused
> relays being in China, Korea, Japan, and perhaps a few other Asian
> countries. So, filtering on those country codes in the headers catches
> those. Were it up to me, I would filter those at the server.
> But I cannot
> even get AT&T Broadband, my home ISP, to agree to respond to
> any spam that
> does not originate on their own network. Imagine that. NONE
> of the spam I
> get at home originates on their network. Imagine that.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
>
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