Hi, Requiring ISPs to tell customers what they are blocking and why sounds as a good idea to me. I am a customer of the same ISP for long time, and they are blocking every application I use!
* I don't have secure IRC access for some months now (while regular IRC connections work, but I prefer to authenticate securely). * I am unable to connect to Google Jabber server using a desktop clients for more than a year. * They are limiting my access to CVS/SVN/Mercurial servers. While small transfers work, I have to use workarounds when I have to transfer more than few kilobytes. When you call their "support services" they say the problem is not on thier side. Too strange that I can access these servers from another ISPs while the problem is "not their". Tomer. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 20:55, ronys <ro...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in > octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to > servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying customers, > and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting anything > beyond "there's a problem, we're working on it". > > Only after slowly spelling out what my problem was (no, I don't want to > send e-mail via your servers, thank you) did I get them to log a request to > unblock port 25 from my home account (still waiting for my work account to > be unblocked). > > I realize that spam is a problem, but this 'solution' strikes me as, how to > put it, inappropriate. > > Am I the only linux-il subscriber affected? It seems to me that the more > customers that write/call to complain, the sooner they'll see the error in > their ways. > > Pesach sameach, > > Rony > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com Sent from Haifa, Israel Fred Allen - "Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."
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