Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly
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A NEW feature on Comcast which blocks email identified as spam has been causing merry hell.
In the good old days if two people decide that an email from an outfit is spam, that email will go into the junk mailbox if it appears anywhere else.
Writing in his bog, one angry customer said that recently Comcast has upped the ante and will block all email from the offending server.
The punter works for a news site and says that Comcast users that have requested daily news emails from the site and are being denied email they have asked for.
He had tried to get Comcast to look at the problem, but the outfit did not seem particularly interested. Loyal readers of the news site who have complained that their news is not being delivered have also complained and been ritualistically ignored.
After much shouting Comcast has lifted the block on the IP range. But this seems to be a problem with several US ISPs. For example, one ISP in Florida and another in California are convinced that every email from Bulgaria must be spam and is refusing to receive mail with a .bg ending.
Ironically the same mail sent from yahoo.com gets through. µ
Comments
Not bad
Good good, the more comcast does to expose their business and thus kill their company the better for the consumer in the long run.not a new policy
Comcast has been doing this for quite a while. My experience is that Comcast kept blocking one of our mail forwarding servers because it would forward marked-up spam along with good mail. They have a form on their Website which allows you to remove your IP address from their blocklist, but you can be relisted willy-nilly. Rinse, lather, repeat. I tried to talk to their support person, but he just told me "that't the way the software works" and that he couldn't offer any other suggestion than to continually go to their Website request removal.Comcast E-mail = garbage
My past experience with Comcast's E-mail was the spam filtering software was innefective and pointless. I've given up on ISP e-mail, and use several Yahoo e-mail accounts.The spam filtering Yahoo provides with it's free account is far easier to manage and seems superior to anything I've used.
Pony up some dosh and get even better control.
It's Comcastic!
It's Comcastic!Cui bono?
One way to get rid of spam would be ask "Cui bono?" Don't worry about who sent the spam, track down who profits from it!Cheap (insert product here)! Buy now!
ISPs should track the seller, not the spammer.
Notify the seller that ALL e-mail TO and FROM his domain will be blocked from their e-mail servers because someone is spamming their customers on behalf of his product.
After a couple big ISPs do this the seller will discover that hiring a spammer will hurt his business, not help it.
But it works.
Been with Comcast for 3 yrs. Get zero spam. If they've blocked other stuff, I haven't missed it.???
OK they can create programs that can actually identify speech patterns and also face recognition but they can't make an intelligent spam filter.I'm confused.
Merry Christmas
Glenn
Vote with your money
Customers are driving the business. If they don't complain then a small minority will suffer. Vote with your money, and get rid of Comcast (if you can).Not news to me
I ran into a problem of Comcast's outgoing mail server not sending my messages that contained images, and images of only a couple hundred kilobytes, so I had to resort to a different outgoing mail server. Comcast would appear to send the message without problem, but nothing arrived, so I also set up an automatic Bcc: return mailbox to monitor whether they actually transmitted my messages.I'm not surprised... it's how monopolies behave.
Comcast users blocked?
A friend of mine on Comcast's network is unable to reach "www.theinquirer.net" from his workstations. Could that be because of this article?Comcast Must Go!
I'm an email administrator at a different company and noticed comcast has been blocking valid emails from commercial domains. I'm not going to do anything about it, but tell the customer to get an email somewhere else, like google mail or yahoo. You can tell Comcast doesn't know what h*ll they're doing. They seem to be blocking different service ports as well.I tried sending a valid message, so we added the dynamic address to comcast and now it's blocked again. Please check here:
IMTA22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net comcast 64.22.83.114 Comcast BL004 Blocked for spam.
Some n00b at Comcast is setting up their mail.