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AOL Blocks Telstra Bigpond Mail

Posted by timothy on from the you're-not-on-the-a-list dept.

frodmann writes "Australian IT reports here that AOL has been blocking email from Telstra bigpond mail accounts. This is possibly attributed to AOL's new white list policy as reported earlier on Slashdot. Although this article is a few days old I can verify that this is still happening. (For those outside of Australia, Telstra is one of our largest ISPs.)"

4 of 192 comments (clear)

  1. Telstra BigPond is crap!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Typically the service offered from Tesltra is Australia is terrible, but due to lack of competition in Australia they have been able to get away with shoddy service and gerneral non-compliance for years.

  2. Not surprising by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 4, Informative

    " For those outside of Australia, Telstra is one of our largest ISPs. "

    Telstra is Australia's largest ISP.

    I'm not particularly surprised that this happened, seeing as how Telstra was almost blocked from Usenet not long ago. Fortunately for Telstra users, it seems to be trying to do something about it.

    --
    OLPC Australia
  3. Re:Why is this a Troll? by munro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe it costs you more because of the
    asymmetric nature of internet interconnection. Telstra probably has much higher expenses than ISPs in the US and Europe.

  4. Whitelist is the only solution by dybdahl · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spamkillers like this one are also based on whitelisting e-mail addresses (although with built-in mechanisms to enable automatic whitelisting of non-spammers):

    http://a-s-k.sourceforge.net/

    Since this method works much better than spamassassin, RBL and similar methods, we better get used to whitelisting. Telstra simply has to get onto the whitelist fast.