"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just because an ISP provides the pipe from your door to the Wild, > Wild, Web does not mean that they have to handle your business mail, > http, and other traffic.
Yes, it does mean exactly that, at least as long as no EXPLICIT statement was meant at the time the contract was entered into. I expect my ISP to route any and all packets without filtering anything. > You shoud inform your ISP immediately that their service is being > blocked because of spammers opertating from them. You are missing the point - mails don't get through not because of spammers, but because of stupidity of some operators (not the OP's ISP). If someone else decides to drop traffic, there is little that my ISP can do beyond complaining to the filtering party (NB: in the context of this discussion it is not the blacklist maintainer but whoever uses their services or similar stupid policies to filter). If the complaint is ignored, there is nothing the ISP can do. Earlier in this thread I mentioned that I had emails lost because a foreign ISP (not mine) filtered it out. It was explicitly a policy of that ISP to live on an island, they did not target my ISP or Israel or known spammers or anything like that (the policy was stated on their web page, I got the URL in the reject notification email, etc.). In that particular case, I simply decided I would live without sending any emails to people who were stupid enough to use their services. It was their problem, not mine. I could not possibly ask my ISP to fix it. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
