YD> There are only 2 YD> places in the whole world that get denied at the MTA here and SBC is the YD> only one of them that got there by spam. My feelings for them cannot be YD> expressed without spilling blood. I'm going to shut up now before I YD> start sounding like a raging nanae-ite :)
Why don't you just set up your email program to block all email from California? Add Florida to the list too, lots of spammers using the major ISPs in that state.... If you look at my headers you will see that I am an SBC subscriber. Wasn't always that way, SBC came along and swallowed up the dialup I used to use, which had in turn swallowed up my previous dialup. The DSL company I used, which had swallowed up the one I initially signed up with, shut down leaving all its customers stranded, and there I was, left with the choice of SBC and Earthlink (leasing SBC lines). So yeah, I use SBC. I can't count the number of ISP's I have used in the past half dozen years that have gone belly up, and I finally gave up and figured that at least SBC has a good chance of still being in business and offering a connection in a year from now. ALL the big ISPs and internet hosting companies have spammers on them, because they are huge companies with too many millions of subscribers for the companies to closely monitor what is going on until they get specific complaints, and a savvy spammer will sign up for an account, spam, and then be long gone well ahead of the time the overworked abuse department catches up. Do I support big corporate conglomerates? No. But I have to live and do business, and that means that reliability is important. The spammers aren't using SBC or Qwest or uu.net or whatever they have chosen because those companies are spam supporters in a world full of diligent ISPs hard at work protecting their customers. The spammers are using the same companies the rest of us choose because those companies are pretty much the only game in town. Which is why Spews is such a joke. SBC really doesn't have to worry about losing customers when there is no place for them to go, so boycotting isn't going to get anywhere other than to inconvenience the thousands of innocent customers whose email is blocked because they happen to live on the same planet as the spammers. -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
