Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

[John Levine <johnl () iecc com>]

> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:24:41PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote:
> > It appears VerizonWireless.com has some rather aggressive mail filters.
>
> Verizon is hopelessly clueless when it comes to mail system operations
> and mail filters -- as evidenced by their ongoing decision to deliberately
> provide anonymizing spam support and DoS attack services to anyone clever
> enough to use them via their abusive "callback" system, and by their total
> failure to to address the torrent of spam emanating from their own network.

Not to belabor the obvious, but Verizon Wireless and Verizon are
different companies with different management and separate
infrastructure.  VZW is a joint venture between VZ and Vodaphone.

VZW recently confirmed that their mail system is separate from VZ's,
and whatever mistakes they may make, they're not VZ's.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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