Re: Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???

From: Dave C. (spammersdie@slowlyandpainfully.com)
Date: 09/01/02 

From: "Dave C." <spammersdie@slowlyandpainfully.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:51:41 GMT

"Sophie Borodin" <s_borodin> wrote in message
news:94e4806.0209010520.222fe6f2@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> At my job, we clerical workers have no internet access or even floppy
> disk drives on our computers. I suppose this is to prevent workers
> from bringing in infected disks and also obviously to prevent
> slacking. We do have email, however, and I had subscribed to a couple
> of newsletters to get news updates and stuff. I also have emailed
> myself a few news articles from home to read during downtime (business
> is very slow right now). During the past few days at work, I haven't
> received any of these outside emails, and when I tried to send myself
> another one I got the "undeliverable mail" message "Server received
> Winsock error Connection refused."
>
> Is this the message I'd receive if my outside emails were being
> blocked by my employer? Although they certainly have the right to do
> that, I think it's a bit paranoid because I didn't get that much email
> and what I did get was certainly inocuous. I don't even receive those
> silly "joke" emails that many of my coworkers do. But then morale is
> rather low here and this is a factory. Workers often complain that it
> used to be a much better, "family-type" place to work before they
> expanded overseas. Management has used tactics like promising bonuses
> and then not giving them, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
>
> It's odd because no one has said anything to me about my email use,
> and my boss has expressed his satisfaction with my work.
>
> Any insight would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Sophie

Some email servers automatically block certain domains, in order to prevent
spam. For example, web-based addresses like yahoo and hotmail in particular
are often blocked . . . especially by business email servers. If you
haven't tried this already, try sending yourself email from a non-web-based
email address. That is, use an email program like outlook express (for
example) to send yourself some email using your ISP's email server.

It's also possible that there could be a local problem with your workplace's
email server, or even your own workstation. I doubt if your email is
blocked. See if your employer has update the spam filters recently. This
could possibly block the newsletters, as well . . . as they would qualify as
'bulk' email, which is often blocked. -Dave

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