Re: Have all the Email systems of the world been broken by ISP's SPAM filters?

From: PA Bear (PABearMVP_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 23:41:30 -0500

Try appending the subjects of your messages with <quote> [Filters Off]
</quote> and see what happens. <eg> 

-- 
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
BeamGuy wrote:
> I am sitting here in this new year trying to figure out how on earth I am
> supposed to send email to my in-laws this year. Their email stopped
> working a few weeks back when their ISP installed a new SPAM filter. Now
> it is fixed... but only 2/5 of my test messages get through.
>
> Searching Google I find that they are not alone. There are not only ample
> complaints about their own tiny ISP.
>
> And their ISP is not alone either. Several months back a friend had to
> give up sending mail to my home DSL account because her messages were
> bouncing... - Google has huge numbers of complaints about my own Verizon
> DSL provider as well.
>
> Here is my matrix of what does not work.
>
> Verizon.net CANNOT send mail to worldkey.net
> axcelis.com CANNOT send mail to worldkey.net
> princeton.edu CANNOT send mail to worldkey.net
> netzero.com CAN send mail to worldkey.net
> samus.securehbs.com CAN send mail to worldkey.net
>
> worldkey.net CANNOT send mail to verizon.net
> worldkey.net CAN send mail to samus.securehbs.com
> worldkey.net  CAN send mail to princeton.edu
> worldkey.net CAN send mail to netzero.net
> worldkey.net CAN send mail to axcelis.com
>
> comcast.net sometimes CANNOT send mail to verizon.net
> verizon.net CAN send mail to comcast.net
>
> samus.securehbs.com CANNOT send mail to godaddy.com for forwarding
> either... In this case they were nice
> enough to send back this response:
> "smtp.secureserver.net [64.202.166.12]: 553 69.93.45.234 rejected due to
> spam, contact 480-505-8877  (Attack detected)"
>
>
> -------------
>
> It is not my job to fill in the rest of the matrix. It looks like as many
> as 50% of the relays
> from one mail to another mail server are broken! Please tell me this is
> not happening.
> I make a living making parts for computers.... if you guys in the
> interest of security break
> everyone's confidence that email will get through... well everyone will
> switch back to
> paper mail and leave all of us with rusty expensive toys that no one uses
> anymore!

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