Re: charter.net

2007-08-25 Thread Matt Kettler
Ray Dzek wrote: > Just as a side note... > > I am a charter customer. I have spoken with their techincal assistance > many times, and at various levels, for myself and on behalf of others I > have tried to assist. They are by far the most incompetent ISP I have > ever dealt with. They only have

Re: charter.net

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Ray
ge. I reject everything from there right-away. Kai Like most ISP, charter.net will block port 25 for those _not_ on their network. I had clients who were using my mail servers for their outgoing mail services until early last year when Comcast, ATT, and Charter (the ones I had to deal with

Re: charter.net

2007-08-24 Thread maillist
al Message- From: Jonn R Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:30 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: charter.net Kai Schaetzl wrote: Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:59:11 -0400: I think it's a brain-dead attempt to counter th

Re: charter.net

2007-08-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jonn R Taylor wrote on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:30:22 -0500: > What even more > interesting is that they block 25 out going. So I am not sure why we all > see so much spam from them. The spam is comming from *.dhcp.*.*.charter.com. Obviously, there's no such blockage. I reject everything from there

RE: charter.net

2007-08-24 Thread Ray Dzek
m: Jonn R Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 5:30 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: charter.net > > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:59:11 -0400: > > > >> I think it's a b

Re: charter.net

2007-08-24 Thread Jonn R Taylor
ggest spam sources for us. Kai Yes, That is very true. Alot of the spam that I see is from charter.net, but I do see alot of spoofed address with there name. What even more interesting is that they block 25 out going. So I am not sure why we all see so much spam from them. Jonn

Re: charter.net

2007-08-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:59:11 -0400: > I think it's a brain-dead attempt to counter the image and pdf > spams that have been so popular lately. It would be nice if they would block their outgoing spam in the same effective way. They are among the biggest spam sources for us. K

Re: charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread SM
rejecting all messages with attachments. You suggested blacklisting charter.net. That's not a solution given that the system only affects charter.net users. Regards, -sm

Re: charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread Jonn R Taylor
Matt Kettler wrote: Jonn R Taylor wrote: OK, but I thought that there was something that one of the RFC's said about rejecting mail at the smtp level? Eh? Also, it looks like they are rejecting mail, at the smtp level, based on message body too. That's fine under the RFCs. In fact, the RFC's

Re: charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Jonn R Taylor wrote: > > OK, but I thought that there was something that one of the RFC's said > about rejecting mail at the smtp level? Eh? > Also, it looks like they are rejecting mail, at the smtp level, based > on message body too. That's fine under the RFCs. In fact, the RFC's explicitly spec

Re: charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread Jonn R Taylor
Matt Kettler wrote: Jonn R Taylor wrote: Charters latest for blocking mail. They must block mail that has any kind of attachments. We have a user that sends her self pdf's to her home account that is hosted by charter.net. Maybe every one should just blacklist charter and then maybe they

Re: charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Jonn R Taylor wrote: > Charters latest for blocking mail. They must block mail that has any > kind of attachments. We have a user that sends her self pdf's to her > home account that is hosted by charter.net. Maybe every one should > just blacklist charter and then maybe they

charter.net

2007-08-23 Thread Jonn R Taylor
Charters latest for blocking mail. They must block mail that has any kind of attachments. We have a user that sends her self pdf's to her home account that is hosted by charter.net. Maybe every one should just blacklist charter and then maybe they will get the hint. Anyway, I thought that