Dirk Eddelbuettel Thinking inside the box
 
Thu, 07 Sep 2006

More Comcast fun
One of the many recurring themes on this blog is the amount of trouble we're having with Comcast. So Ladies and Gentlemen, here is a new one:

Having been forced to use the ISP as a smarthost for delivery (as reverse lookup is not provided for residential service), I depend on Comcast to deliver my mail. But look what we just got for attempting help a user on the quantlib-users list:

Reporting-MTA: dns; comcast.net
Arrival-Date: 8 Sep 2006 1:46:30 +0000

Final-Recipient: rfc822;
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.0 MAIL FROM: 550 REPLY:
550-"rejected_because_your_SMTP_server,_204.127.225.94,_is_in_the_Spamcop_RBL.
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent Failure: Other address status
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 01:46:36 -0000

So a benefit of handing over around $500 per annum is that I do not get my mail delivered because the goods folks at sourceforge.net now think ATT Broadband aka Comcast [ to whom the address mail server 204.127.225.94 resolves ] is a spammer.

Someone please remind me why I haven't switched to Speakeasy?

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