Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Paolo <bloom_64@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Returned message Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210251432120.22454-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20021025182651.95793.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Paolo wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:26:51 -0700 (PDT) > From: Paolo <bloom_64@yahoo.com> > To: Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> > 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
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