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Comcast Blocks Yet Another ISPs E-Mail

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-can't-heeeeear-youuuu dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes, "Last week Comcast shutdown e-mail forwarding from NameZero entirely. People who have bought private domain names (i.e. yourname@yourdomain.com) and have e-mail forwarding to their current Comcast e-mail account through NameZero aren't receiving it any longer. No warnings — no e-mail. Now, again without warning, they've blocked out The Well, one of the oldest ISPs on the net. And nobody can get through to the Comcast people in charge of this to discuss the issue with them. Not the ISPs being blocked. Not the customers who pay Comcast to deliver e-mail to them. Comcast says they're protecting 10M customers from spam. I am a current Comcast broadband customer and I feel I should have the right to whitelist and receive e-mail from whomever I designate. I don't want as much protection as Comcast is giving me. Is it a basic right to be allowed to receive e-mail from whomever I desire, or does Comcast have the right to censor as they wish?" Last week Comcast was also blocking mail from alum.mit.edu. I (probably among many others) left a complaint on the phone line identified in bounce messages; the block was eventually lifted.

4 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Say What? by MECC · · Score: 2, Funny

    I normally wouldn't respond to my own comment, but in the spirit of 'slashback', I just now got spam from comcast, promising to show me how to 'enhance' parts of my life. Off to spamcop they go...

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    "We are all geniuses when we dream"
    - E.M. Cioran
  2. Re:I think I may have identified your problem... by revery · · Score: 2, Funny

    m with WOW now, and I haven't looked back. Service is far superior, and I'm paying $40 less per month. Ditch Comcast...you'll feel better.

    OHMYGOSH!!!! World of Warcraft provides broadband now?!?!?! How do I switch to them? Please, please, please give me the phone number!!!!! If I sign up will they let me into the Burning Crusade Beta? That would be so sweet. I have sent Blizzard like a million emails explaining to them how totally awesome of a PVP'er that I am, and how great of a contribution I would make to their beta, but they have not responded yet. I swear, I think they are loosing their minds....

    So anyway, please let me know about how I can switch to WOW and if you want I will let you into my guild.

    Thanks.

    P.S. I am a lvl 21 Hunter on Anvilmar and my chars name is PwnMister (used to be PwnMasterPimp, but some stupid GM made me change it) Send me a tell and we can PVP or go run MC together or something (I have been wanting to unleash my mad PVP skills on it for a while now).

    P.P.S. If you suck at PVP, do not look me up.

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    This is a joke. I am joking. You have been joked with.

  3. Re:If I had to wildly guess.... by MondoMor · · Score: 0, Funny

    Surely you meant, "If I had to guess wildly..." :)

  4. Re:I think I may have identified your problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I believe he says it in the next sentence: "I like to keep my options open. Good thing too, because in the past 5 years I've had 3 unique ISPs and 5 different accounts. (Time Warner -> Verizon -> College network -> Verizon -> Time Warner)"

    I know, that's all in English and stuff and as such is hard to read, but I thought it might help if someone pointed it out to you.