[Elecraft] Earthlink ISP problems

[Steve Muncy]

Just to offer a different view, I switched to Earthlink about two years 
after having absolutely miserable experiences with AOL and several 
other 'real' Internet Service Providers. I've had two Earthlink 
accounts for this period of time -- a personal account (currently DSL) 
and a business/travel account (dialup). I've had great service and very 
good technical  support from the Mac tech support team at Earthlink. I 
travel a lot for business, and have never, ever  had a problem 
retrieving or sending email while on the road. My home personal account 
now uses .Mac for  email service and personal web pages, so I can't 
speak to the issues some have recently had with email. I know, however, 
that most large ISPs are taking severe measures to cure the spam 
problem and those actions frequently cause users some heartburn.

(Personally, being from Texas I'd like to see a federal law passed 
mandating the death penalty for spammers -- then sent to Texas  to have 
the sentence carried out!)

Just my opinion....and I've no interest in Earthlink other than as a 
satisfied user.

On Saturday, Apr 19, 2003, at 01:11 US/Central, k4wtf@enterzone.net 
wrote:

> This will NOT prevent a user for retrieving email from a remote 
> mailserver
> however.  Mail retrieval occurs on TCP port 110 for POP2/POP3, and TCP
> port 143 for IMAP.
>
> The port 25 blocks are put in place to prevent SPAMMERS from using a
> throw-away "dialup" account to inject mail directly into a remote
> mailserver.  If only more providers would follow BCP, we would not have
> the spam problems that we have now.
>
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