Re: verizon fios bounced a legit private email of mine telling me it was spam and they would not allow it

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting () gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > '<font size=72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'
>
>
> What is that, an /106?

FALSE! only ipv4 on fios!! silly people and their 'more than 32 bits'
addresses... ha! fiction I say!!

> -e
>
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami anime net>
> > wrote:
> > > This is what's going on at verizon.
> > >
> > > http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/726/
> > >
> > > -Dan
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Gordon Cook wrote:
> > >
> > > > dear Nanog
> > > >
> > > > Sorry to bother you,   I am sitting here in shock,   I have been a
> > > > Verizon
> > > > to  FiOS customer for about the past six years at least I think maybe
> > > > eight.
> > > > every now and then the Verizon server will bounce an email back and
> > > > tell me
> > > > that it’s busy or not functioning but just now it bounced one back and
> > > > I’m
> > > > sorry I don’t have a screenshot of what it said but it clearly said
> > > > that it
> > > > considered me to be a spammer.   I may be a lot of things but a spammer
> > > > I am
> > > > not.  ;-)   when I get an email bounced back Apple OS X  always
> > > > volunteers
> > > > to use the pair networks server and I always automatically take that
> > > > choice
> > > > giving it never a second thought.
> > > >
> > > > it also reminded me that there was a limit on the amount of private
> > > > emails
> > > > a customer could send.
> > > >
> > > > And it said I needed to take the alleged spam and send it to
> > > >
> > > > spamdetector.update () verizon net  and if I remember correctly wait at
> > > > least
> > > > an hour and then try to send the message again.
> > > >
> > > > Stating very clearly that no human being would talk to me.
> > > >
> > > > what in God’s name is going on?   Please a year and a half or two years
> > > > ago when a route  to Ecuador was being filtered a couple of NANOG folk
> > > > knew
> > > > whom to contact and the problem was fixed in record time.   I am hoping
> > > > that I will experience the same thing.   I should not be a stranger to
> > > > any
> > > > old time Nanog-ers.   but right now I’m feeling really paranoid!