[Elecraft] OT: ISP problems

[Jerry Flanders]

Since this relates to the Elecraft reflector email, I guess it is 
just barely on-toic, so:

I have had comcast for years and get almost all my mail directly 
through my comcast email address and read it with Eudora. Only 
problem I ever had was when comcast stopped passing along mail from a 
HPSDR reflector to me, thinking it was spam. This was just for a 
short time, and it was fixed.

Back then, if your ISP also hosted another guy who was sending out 
spam, comcast might block legitimate email from you to me because of 
the spammer. I hope they have refined their anti-spam techniques now, 
but don't know for sure. People are coming to use their email as if 
had all the qualities of the US postal service, and for any ISP to 
stop delivering email arbitrarily can cause big problems.

Jerry W4UK

At 10:45 AM 7/11/2008, Mike Scott wrote:
> >I wonder if those who are stuck with Comcast or simply persist in
>using it could get *all* their mail by using a yahoo or gmail account.
>  Is it just mail to the comcast email addresses they block or do they
>actually block traffic from other mail servers?  Maybe someone in the
>know could tell us.  I use gmail through my Verizon ISP and it does
>very nicely, with lots of features.
>
>Dave  W5DHM
>
>
>Maybe the problem is Yahoo and not comcast. It takes two to communicate and
>the breakage could be on the Yahoo side in how it treats Comcast vs. gmail.
>I subscribe to about ten yahoo groups and I can not get the emails from the
>group. Actually I get maybe one in one-hundred posts.
>I use EarthLink as my ISP.
>
>Mike Scott - AE6WA
>Tarzana, CA (DM04 / near LA)
>K3-100 #508/ KX1  #1311
>
>
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