Anti-recommendation: Comcast.

[Charles C. Bennett, Jr.]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:29 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> At about 3:17 AM on Thursday the 17th, Comcast imposed a filter on port 25
> (SMTP) inbound to my cable modem.
> 
> Around mid-morning, I realized that the only mail messages I was getting
> were generated at my house. I checked my logs, verified functionality
> -- everything was working properly except inbound SMTP from external
> sources -- checked my firewall and rebooted it, just in case. Then I
> called Comcast.
> 
> That took a while, of course. After four tech support people each
> listened to my problem description and then asked me to restart Outlook,
> I talked to a supervisor who told me I was a spammer and they would not
> be removing the filter under any circumstances.
> 
> This morning I discovered that, in fact, this has been rolled-out across
> the country.
> 
> I made arrangements to leave Comcast, of course. I've only been a customer
> of this network for ten years.
> 
> The freedom to manage your own email is essential in today's legal
> environment, in which the government appears not to need a subpoena to
> read your email if a third party stores it for you. 
> 
> -dsr-
> 

Unfortunately in some towns (like mine) its Comcast, Dial-Up or
Satellite.

I'm Earthlink over the Comcast physical plant...

I would love to have SpeakEasy or some other open DSL provider but the
VZ isn't putting a DSLAM in Carlisle.  Ever.


ccb

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Charles C. Bennett, Jr. <ccb at acm.org>


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