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Re: Comcast Response
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:48:26 -0800
________________________________________ From: WJCarpenter [bill-ip () carpenter org] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:52 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Response
We have seen the flurry of posts about Comcast and e-mail blocking and customer communications. I would like to take this opportunity to provide Comcast's position on these comments. ... Declan Forde Snr. Director of Security Comcast
Well, someone with that title should certainly know, so I have to conclude he's either lying about the policy or something outside the policy is going on. The policy just doesn't square with observation over the last week or two. It's pretty clear that we are now seeing a pretty pervasive outbound port 25 block, and there is NO notification. (I'm not opposed to port 25 blocking. Like many others, I merely objected to it suddenly starting without any notice.) I'm even willing to believe I lost my email notification in the spam flow, but there have been a heck of a lot of "me too" posts on I-P and elsewhere. Since it would be uncivil to call a complete stranger a liar, my suspicion is that he's either out of the loop or some port 25 blocking network config is happening via some technical accident. I switched to port 587, of course, so my own inconvenience is over. Nonetheless, I'd be happy (as I'm sure many others would be) to have someone from Comcast explain why my particular account is blocked (but I'm not willing to play phone games with first-line support just to have them parrot the policy). For the heck of it, I tried outbound port 25 again just now. The symptoms are slightly different from the day it first got blocked, which very slightly adds to the suspicion of a technical mistake in the network. (On the first day, I just got timeouts. Today, I'm getting some kind of partially opened connection that still does nothing productive.) ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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