AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org>:
> > Yes, but in the phone companies case, they have the ability to shut
> OFF 
> > service to people who might abuse it.  In the case of the net, they
> have no 
> > such ability.
> Oh, you're right Tom, ISP's can't shut off their customers when they
> misbehave...  I should have thought of that.

  And I recall a conversation on this VERY list where someone WAS shutoff, and 
the annoyed that was wrong to turn it off conversations that took place..

> > And how DO you find them?  Hrm?
> You get their IP address.  It's on the headers of their mail.  Yes,
> even if they are forging headers.  Some IP which is tied to them is on
> the headers.  One of the SMTP hosts they don't control will record it.

Yeppers.  They sure will.  Let me send one later, I promise.  Tonight..

> There's no such thing as a generic IP.  You have to get your net
> access somewhere, and you have pay for the ISP account some how.
> These things will lead back to you.

Really now?  We shall see, wont we.

> That may be, but it has a very low rate of offenders.  And I'm not one
> of them, so how is blocking me fair?

It's not 'fair'.  It's a profiling, on a technical level.  No qualms about 
it.  And I want to finger your machine.  Why wont you let me?  :-)

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Thomas Charron
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