Wendy Grossman: Breaking the kneecaps of email

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob () drzyzgula org>
Date: June 5, 2005 8:09:41 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Wendy Grossman: Breaking the kneecaps of email


Dave,

For IP, if you like.

--Bob Drzyzgula

<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23703>

| Breaking the kneecaps of email
|
| net.wars
|
| By: Wendy M. Grossman Friday 03 June 2005, 17:29
|
| I SHOULD be grateful to Verizon. Really.
|
| No one answers email any more. And Verizon
| keeps me from being paranoid about it.
|
| Four months ago, I wrote about the problems
| I had emailing my agent at Verizon. At the
| time, the company admitted that, yes, it
| was blocking email, but denied that it was
| blocking entire geographical regions. For
| spam protection, dontcha know.
|
| But, Verizon said, whatever blocking it
| was doing was all right because it was
| instituting a whitelist. All my agent –
| or any other Verizon user – had to do was
| submit my address and they'd remove it from
| the block.
|
| Hahahahahahaha.
|
| That was in early January. I can report
| that as recently as three days ago, email
| sent to her from my London-based home
| mail server still bounced. She herself
| says that email from Africa reaches her;
| email from Europe generally doesn't; email
| from Asia sometimes does. She has tried
| to whitelist her European correspondents
| with varying success. Some, like me, never
| get whitelisted. Some get whitelisted, and
| then mysteriously drop off the whitelist
| after a little while, unpredictably. I have
| workarounds: I email her from addresses I
| have on AOL, CompuServe, or The WELL, all of
| which are based in the US. They all arrive
| successfully. Anything sent from UK-based
| addresses fails.
|
| Last Friday, just for grins, I tried
| again. Unlike previously, when the first
| bounce wouldn't arrive for four hours,
| it now bounced immediately.
|
| It said:
|
| [...]




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