ISP Spam filtering (Re: [Dx4win] Registration still not received:)

[NR1DX]

At 08:35 AM 2/7/03 -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
>At 07:18 AM 2/7/03 -0600, Bruce wrote:
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>>I still see spots where people have received their email registration 
>>with 24 hours.  Mine has not shown up after 10 days.  What is going 
>>on???  My bank cleared the VISA transaction over 8 days ago!!
>
>Bruce, I presume your message will get the desired response from 
>Steve.  It sure sounds like a clerical error.  Keep in mind he's only one 
>guy, has a real job too, and has probably been swamped since the new 
>release went out.
>
>Another ominous possibility -- my ISP recently proudly announced that it 
>is "helping" me handle SPAM by filtering based on sites of origin.  No 
>info on how they choose those sites, but they said they stopped 43 percent 
>of all e-mail during a recent test.  43 percent!  I get a lot of SPAM, but 
>not that much.  It seemed likely to me that they are stopping some stuff I 
>want, so I opted out of the filtering.

Pete

My (former) ISP did the same thing, except they never bothered to tell me 
they were doing it, I lost two consulting contracts and as a result I 
changed ISP's and am suing the former one. This is a growing trend among 
ISP's because the Spam clogs up their server capacity (not because they 
"care" about you). While I think Spam and Phone solicitation should be 
outlawed it is not the place of the service providers to decide who you get 
email from. It amounts to the same thing as the phone company screening 
your calls

Dave H


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