John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:04:49PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
b) What assurance do I have that whoever I chose won't wind up with the same problem, given that, as I mentioned, a dozen years ago, they were blocking a good part of the city of Chicago?
Umm, that's actually hardly true considering the number of providers in Chicago.
Around the turn of the decade, there were *NOT*. For example, my nice ISP got eaten by 21st Century, which got eaten by rcn, which I think was either a branch, or became part of Time-Warner, and that's just my experience. And for other than dial-up, there WERE NO OTHER cable/Internet providers in large swaths of the city. <snip>
Hell Mark... _I_ will be happy to relay outbound for you, no charge, for as long as you want it.
That was unexpected, and thank you. I may take you up on that.
At least this time, I could remove myself, as opposed to the times when they complain that "too many spams", and I have to wait for hostmonster to get them off their case.
Should things be the way they are? No, probably not. Should you be ignored by TPTB with regards to this? No, probably not. Is anything likely to change? No, likely not. It is what it is, for better or worse.
As I said, ideal case is for IX to actually respond, and change their methods; second best would be for the listowner to choose some other method of blocking spam - I dunno, a captcha when signing up for the list?
The offer is legit. If you want to take me up on it and we can get this fixed for you, awesome. If not, I urge you to take matters into your own hands and implement a solution to address this recurring problem.
Again, thank you. You're a scholar... <g>
mark, not a gentleman, neither by breeding, nor Act of Congress