Re: Spam Cop Problems (have to use shared e-mail with IIe)

[kibri@eudoramail.com (Tom Brown)]

Raj <raj@intelstarbase-01.net> wrote in message news:<te0hduo166mdt0srqapsis649i645qrng4@4ax.com>...
> On 7 May 2002 11:11:57 -0700, kibri@eudoramail.com (Tom Brown) wrote:
> >it stopped.  Yes, by all means stop the spam, but you folks are
> >wrongly blocking commece and correspondence which is not spam.  Any
> >suggestions folks?  Tom
> 
> Tom,
> 
> As much as I hate to admit it... "Jalapeno" is giving you good advice.
> I know that many sites block the free-mail sites because spammers use
> them all of the time. Granted, most of the time the headers of the
> e-mail are forged and the free-mail providers are not at fault. Heck,
> I even block *all* @yahoo.com e-mail on my SMTP gateway because
> everything I've ever gotten from @yahoo.com is SPAM.
> 
> Take "Jalapeno's" advice and get a real account.

 Folks, The real problem is lack of local access ISP's that support
this old machine.  As much as I hate to admit it, it may be time to
sell this beloved antique and just migrate to the main stream.  It is
annoying to have some outsider, spam cop, interefere with legitimate
comerce and force people off the net due to lack of connectivity. 
Spam is a real problem, yet forcing free e-mail users off the web to
control this seems to be a ploy to end free e-mail.  The reason I use
this system is that I like the old machine, and locally no ISP that I
knew of offered shell accounts with dial up access less than 56.6KB, 
none of the postings reflect this either.  Please keep in mind that I
am really on a IIe and I have a 14.4BK Modem.  From the referrals I
see here I still cannot connect to any of them due to modem/hardware
or locality. (my current situation was a way around this and has
worked just fine).  If anyone else has knowledge of other isp's that
offer low speed modem connectivity and shell accounts
Please let me know.  Thanks.  Tom

(Please no spam)