AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:38:06PM -0500, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 15:06, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> 
> > I'm 99.9% certain you're right.  Our CEO has Comcast DSL, and I can state
> > authoritatively that it absolutely blocks his outbound port 25 from going
> > anywhere other than to Comcast IPs.  We got around it by using a
> > non-standard port for SMTP, and it works like a champ, so apparently they
> > only clamp down on specific IPs.  NOTE: the host we were attempting to
> > talk -to- is a host fully under our control, with no blocking whatsoever,
> > so it was definitely Comcast's side that was blocking outbound.
> 
> Many ISP's are doing this sort of filtering now. No outbound 25, no
> inbound port 80/443, etc. They claim that it is to protect their
> networks from worms and the like. However, I believe that they are
> ramping up for a new business model where they have different levels of
> service depending on how much you want to pay. 

Strangely enough, I'd pay for it.  But I imagine they'll charge me
through the nose (read: more than 2X the cost) for it.  In which
case it won't be affordable.

-Mark
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