[ale] AT&T blocked

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed February 18 2009, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>         I had a similar problem with AT&T a couple months back. Turns out
> that they take the old shotgun approach to spam filtering. They block huge
> netblocks and cause collateral damage. I simply configured my servers to
> reject any mail from AT&T with a statement saying that I couldn't accept
> mail from a company with such an asshat approach to spam filtering and
> encouraged them to complain to their provider.
>
>         I only had to put the block in for a few hours before they removed
> my IP from their blacklist.

yeah, nice EXCEPT, my family uses AT&T DSL ( my remote family in Connecticut), 
that I communicate with daily. And most of all my local contacts are 
Bellsouth DSL customers..

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Paul Cartwright
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