Re: [Nolug] Cox's idea about fighting spam

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 18:34, Tim Kelley wrote:
> 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.

Unless for some dumbarse reason you can't get DSL even though you
are spitting distance from Elmwood.

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