more on Karma ...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: David Bolduc <bolduc () austin rr com>
Date: May 11, 2006 11:17:48 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Fwd: [IP] Karma ...

More from Randall, for IP if you like.

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> From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
> Date: May 11, 2006 9:43:58 AM CDT
> To: David Bolduc <bolduc () austin rr com>
> Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [IP] Karma ...
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:47 -0500, David Bolduc wrote:
> > FYI, in case you're not *getting* IP as well.
> >
> >
> > Yell if you want anything forwarded.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Looks like I'm getting IP mail - and a friend of mine who has spent
> thirty years in the NOC at the former GTE kept at it until she spoke
> with someone at Insight who had an explanation, which Dave might  
> want to
> send to I-P:
>
> ================
>
> I just spent 2 hours on hold and another hour and a half talking  
> with a
> kid named [XXXXX XXXXX] at Insight’s technical support.
>
> This whole mess started when Insight decided to break away from at&t’s
> backbone and use their servers to form their own backbone.  This
> migration is partially complete.  Your server has been changed to the
> new backbone and your IP should now begin with 74.128.xxx.xxx.   
> However,
> the email servers for your area are still the old way and are
> 12.208.xxx.xxx.
>
> Mine on the other hand have been pushed back, and both my IP and email
> servers are still 12.208.xxx.xxx.
>
> For the time being, there is (according to Robby) virtually no mail
> filtering done by Insight.  He says for that reason, many ISPs are
> currently blocking mail from us because of the amount of spam  
> emanating
> from insightbb.com addresses.  He gave me no understandable valid  
> reason
> why we are unable to receive mail from yahoogroups.com though.  <sigh>
>
> I have two relatives on the west coast that have juno.com  
> addresses, and
> they are unable to receive mail from me, although I can receive from
> them.
>
> Robby was perfectly willing to check and/or try anything I suggested,
> and believe me, I made many suggestions!  Nothing was resolved.
>
> Because of the state of upheaval, and the fact that they’re still
> mid-migration, it was a little difficult.  He asked that I wait until
> after the 20th of the month, and email him if still trouble with email
> to or from any site at that point.  They expect the migration to be
> complete around the 15th to the 18th (they keep having trouble causing
> delays in the schedule...if you can imagine that!), and probably won’t
> devote much time to issues like this until after all servers and major
> customers are up and running on the new backbone.  He said that by the
> 20th, they should be ready to address mail filtering and any blacklist
> problems.
>
> I reached Robby at 800-XXX-XXXX.  His email address is [Elided]
> @insightcom.com.  I asked for permission to provide you with his email
> address, and he agreed.  I will also forward his email to you.
>
> Sorry I don’t have something more successful to report.  :(


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