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IP: New Verizon SMTP email policy
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:49:06 -0400
My son, Manny<manny () manny com> sent me essentially the same note with the same reactions djf
From: David Pakman <pakman () myplay com> To: "David J Farber (E-mail)" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: New Verizon SMTP email policy Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:24:53 -0700 Dave, Here is a despicable situation I thought you and your IP readers would be interested in hearing about. I live in Westchester county, New York. The only DSL provider to my home is Verizon. Verizon DSL requires all of their customers to use the Verizon ISP. As of Saturday, Verizon (the ISP) made a change to their Terms and Conditions (without telling their users). They are now restricting any use of their SMTP servers to ONLY those users who have set their return-email address to >address to xxxx () verizon net. This means that if you wanted your email address to appear as xxxxx () mydomainname com and "mydomainname" is hosted by some other service (that may not even provide email services), you cannot use Verizon SMTP servers. As you know, it is really bad netiquette, (and in fact, often impossible) to use SMTP servers other than the ones from which you are getting your connectivity. Most ISPs block access to their SMTP servers unless your connectivity is provided by them. So, unless I am willing to send all emails from home with a xxxxx () verizon net email address, I can no longer send outgoing email from home. Did someone say "abuse of monopoly power"? While Verizon certainly doesn't consider themselves a monopoly any more, there is no other provider of DSL services in my area, as Covad and others were forced out of business by discriminatory pricing provided by the bells themselves. Argh. What was the name of that broadband satellite provider? Regards, David .................................................................... David Pakman President, Business Development & Public Policy Co-Founder myplay, inc. -- Your music. Anytime. Anywhere. www.myplay.com mailto:pakman () myplay com
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