From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 11:39:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1497E37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8868343E6E for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 464AF4FC9F; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411C24A0E; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Paolo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Returned message In-Reply-To: <20021025182651.95793.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paolo wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:26:51 -0700 (PDT) > From: Paolo > To: Marc Schneiders > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Returned message > > I fully agree with you on spam, and I also fully agree with you on the > bad "customer care" practice of interbusiness. > > I'll follow up with them, and if you can provide me with some other > "big company" blacklisting them too, I can enforce the case. > > But it happens that interbusiness in Italy is like AOL, so it's like I > block all AOL. > > About changing ISP, it's very difficult in Italy because interbusiness > is the Internet provider of Telecom Italia, that's the last mile actual > monopolist and, to get ADSL connection, we all need to deal with it. > > Let's say you are excluding near 50% of italian on-line people. I don't > know if it's fair. > > As my 90% of spam is coming from the USA, I should block all the USA > mail, don't I? > > Regards > > Paolo > I agree that it's not fair, but it doesn't stop me from dropping messages from several countries, either. I've never received anything but spam from Uganda, so anything *.ua goes in the circular bit-bucket. It's not fair, but it makes my life simpler and my inbox cleaner. So just use yer yahoo email address. Sorry for the OT post. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message