Re: the idiots at comcast suddenly started

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ed Gerck [egerck () nma com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:29 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip
Subject: Re: [IP] the idiots at comcast suddenly started

Comcast's customers have a worse problem in 2008 -- some can't get email.

SF bay area comcast is having large, yet unsolved email problems since
start 2008. According to the error message I saw in one such bounce case
(copy available by request), email to at least some of their customers'
comcast
address is being blocked before reaching comcast because comcast's IP
pool is now in spam black-lists.

So, their sudden blocking of port 25 seems to be a quick, ugly
measure to try to get their IPs off spam lists, so their clients may
at least receive email again.

Of course, other solutions exist but comcast, that was not very proactive
before when the problem started even before 2007, may just stick with
the ugly solution...until it also fails.

Cheers,
Ed Gerck

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