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

[Jalapeno <jalapeno1@mac.com>]

In article <f7977a59.0205080904.35a3e47a@posting.google.com>,
 kibri@eudoramail.com (Tom Brown) wrote:

> 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.  

I just gave you two. There are more. They are "national" ISP's with 
local dial-up numbers. Take a look. FCOL eskimo.net has numbers in all 
50 states!

> ...                  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, 

Don't be an imbecile. 56k is the top speed not the minimum speed. 56k 
modems will connect at any speed your modem negotiates. Just to make 
sure that something hasn't changed in the past month I just called 6 of 
the local numbers from foxvalley.net and eskimo.net that advertised as 
56k and forced them to connect at 4800 baud. They all made 4800 baud 
connections. Sheesh.

> 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

The problem isn't your IIe or the local ISP's. The problem seems to be 
that you are lazy or you are a moron. Dude, you should get a Dell. That 
seems to be your speed. Blaming spamcop because you are a cheap bastard 
is pretty lame, if you ask me.