psychomf
join:2000-06-01
Silver Spring, MD | who uses comcast email?
why would you use the email service provided by comcast? it just ties you down to them if you hand that email out to ppl.
Gmail makes that obsolete... |
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kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | Hosted Gmail for domains makes regular Gmail obsolete. |
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King P
Don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul
Premium
join:2004-11-17
Inman, SC | running your own email server beats them both  |
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kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | I've been doing that for years...but there is something to be said about Gmail's fabulous AJAX interface, free POP, and plenty of storage/archive space. I finally switched over to hosted gmail and turned off my own mail server. |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA | reply to psychomf
Not sure if anyone ever thought about this or not. There's tons of comcast ip addresses that are listed on RBL's including Spamhaus. I hope Comcast takes steps to get ip addresses un-blackholed. |
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hep cat
do da dirdy bird
join:2001-02-17
Decatur, GA | reply to psychomf
Because you have some people like myself that don't like any web based e-mail. I also don't trust Google with anything except as a search engine. I have 5 Comcast e-mail addresses and only 1 of them ever gets spam. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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said by technick  :Not sure if anyone ever thought about this or not. There's tons of comcast ip addresses that are listed on RBL's including Spamhaus. I hope Comcast takes steps to get ip addresses un-blackholed. 99% of those IP addresses are dynamically assigned residential accounts, a large number of which host compromised computers running spamming proxies. Until Comcast implements outbound port 25 blocking across the board, I hope those IP addresses remain listed. Otherwise I'll have to create my own, local blacklist to cover them.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
 ·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
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said by kapil :I've been doing that for years...but there is something to be said about Gmail's fabulous AJAX interface, free POP, and plenty of storage/archive space. I finally switched over to hosted gmail and turned off my own mail server. POP blows chunks.
Storage storage space is dead cheap, too. Granted, I might actually have to spend money on my storage, but my space limitation is then the size of the drive, not some limit set by someone else. I also don't have to worry about anyone else sifting my mail spools for advertising (or other) "opportunities".
-tom
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | Nothing beats your own mail server, period. (Windows Merak Mail Server), (Linux Post-Fix Mail Server) |
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sweintz
Premium
join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
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said by NormanS :99% of those IP addresses are dynamically assigned residential accounts, a large number of which host compromised computers running spamming proxies. Until Comcast implements outbound port 25 blocking across the board, I hope those IP addresses remain listed. Otherwise I'll have to create my own, local blacklist to cover them. There are plenty of RBL's that specifically list dynamic IP's. None have 100% accurate, but are close enough.
The sorbs DUL comes to mind. I think NJABL has a dynamic list as well. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by sweintz :There are plenty of RBL's that specifically list dynamic IP's. None have 100% accurate, but are close enough. The sorbs DUL comes to mind. I think NJABL has a dynamic list as well. And the "XBL" part of the Spamhaus 'sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org' list. I am not sure that the "SBL" side deals with open proxies; the Spamhaus site states that it does not.
Also, AFAIK, the Comcasts output SMTP servers used for their residential accounts are not blocked by either SBL, or XBL. SPEWS occasionally catches them; but I don't use SPEWS.
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~Oh Lord, why have you come
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