'<font size=72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Dan Hollis <goe...@sasami.anime.net> wrote: > This is what's going on at verizon. > > http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/726/ > > -Dan > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Gordon Cook wrote: > >> dear Nanog >> >> Sorry to bother you, I am sitting here in shock, I have been a Verizon >> to FiOS customer for about the past six years at least I think maybe eight. >> every now and then the Verizon server will bounce an email back and tell me >> that it’s busy or not functioning but just now it bounced one back and I’m >> sorry I don’t have a screenshot of what it said but it clearly said that it >> considered me to be a spammer. I may be a lot of things but a spammer I am >> not. ;-) when I get an email bounced back Apple OS X always volunteers >> to use the pair networks server and I always automatically take that choice >> giving it never a second thought. >> >> it also reminded me that there was a limit on the amount of private emails >> a customer could send. >> >> And it said I needed to take the alleged spam and send it to >> >> spamdetector.upd...@verizon.net and if I remember correctly wait at least >> an hour and then try to send the message again. >> >> Stating very clearly that no human being would talk to me. >> >> what in God’s name is going on? Please a year and a half or two years >> ago when a route to Ecuador was being filtered a couple of NANOG folk knew >> whom to contact and the problem was fixed in record time. I am hoping >> that I will experience the same thing. I should not be a stranger to any >> old time Nanog-ers. but right now I’m feeling really paranoid! >> >
