[R-390] Re: QTH.NET and the sorbs conspiracy

[Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com]

Bob,

I understand your E-mail Spam problems. My last project at Raytheon put 11 
contractor sites behind a fire wall so we could all get along. Then us guys at 
Raytheon had to go across a fire wall to see our Raytheon Time cards and stuff. 
We had to cross that net to a gate way fire wall to cruse the Internet. There 
was more bucks paid to Lucent to manage the T3 lines between all the sites 
literally across the Nation. That was considered just the barely acceptable 
solution to the network problem. But yes Raytheon has resorted to "private" 
networks between contract members to allow work to get done and not have to filter 
Spam all day. Then when we try to do business with a vender on line and have to 
go across a fire wall into the "open Internet" it was hell. The stuff piling 
into the Raytheon known IP addresses was ugly. Two servers were mounted right 
over the big dumpsters just to deal with the rejected bits.

Really this problem is going to get worse. I hide behind my Malmart services 
and mail to the Qth.net. I have no Idea how many bits my service provider 
dumps when I spend a couple hours do a search on the Internet for some product.

Roger KC6TRU