yahoo -> verizon mail br0ken

[Paul Lussier]

kevin_d_clark at comcast.net writes:

>  Here is something interesting: 
>
> : Date:	 23 Apr 2006 17:42:49 -0000
> : From:	MAILER-DAEMON at yahoo.com  
> : To:	bob at yahoo.com
> : Subject:	failure notice
> : 
> : Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
> : I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> : addresses.
> : This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> : 
> : <USERNAME at verizon.net>:
> : Connected to 206.46.232.13 but sender was rejected.
> : Remote host said: 550 Email from your Email Service Provider is currently
> : blocked by 
> : Verizon Online's anti-spam system.  The email "sender" or Email Service
> : Provider may visit 
> : http://www.verizon.net/whitelist and request removal of the block.

I got something similar a whole back and went to that web page, filled
out the form and got a response back rejecting my request !

> A friend of mine even reminded me that Verizon and Yahoo have a
> business relationship when it comes to ISP functionality.
>
> I thought I'd pass this along.  From my friend's perspective, he is
> a Verizon customer and he is looking for work; he is none to happy
> at the possibility that responses to his resume might be blocked.

Funny thing spam.  We all want an e-mail address at which anyone in
the world can contact us.  Then we get upset when they do, so we set
up mechanisms by which we prevent them from contacting us.  At which
point we get upset that they can't :)
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Seeya,
Paul