On Tuesday 10 June 2003 5:57 pm, Pietu wrote:
> I just received a "friendly" e-mail from Cox cable.
> Their latest idea for fighting spam is to block all traffic to 3rd
> party e-mail servers.
>
> Naturally since I'm only a paying customer, they don't have to think
> that I might want to send e-mails too. So far the only reliable
> e-mail server I had was my own server in Texas.
>
> I wonder when they start blocking ssh also, since tunneling through
> ssh seems to be the only way for me to continue e-mailing anything.
Cox is basically stupid, arrogant, and organizationally incompetent; you
can expect to be treated accordingly. The various DSL providers are
far less obtrusive and seem to have far fewer problems - much more
friendly to linux users. Go with the small companies; the typical
megacorp ISP sucks rocks.
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