Routing all mail through comcast

Mark J. Dulcey mark at buttery.org
Thu Oct 23 11:11:47 EDT 2003


David Kramer wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:15, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
> 
> 
>>The problem is that this may be a short list, but it probably includes
>>half the Internet users in the United States (at least when they're at
>>home), because there are some really big players there (AOL, Hotmail,
>>Earthlink, Verizon, RoadRunner, Southwest Bell). Maybe it's time to
>>fight back and start a campaign to refuse email from THEIR domains, for
>>their refusal to honor Internet standards.
> 
> 
> Would you be hurting AOL, Hotmail, Earthlink, Verizon, RoadRunner, and 
> Southwest Bell, or would you be hurting yourself and the innocent users of 
> those systems?
> 
> Telling AOL users that AOL sucks doesn't seem to get them to switch.  I have 
> tried many times.

I meant trying to organize something on a larger scale. If you can get 
enough people to play, maybe they'll notice - or at least their 
customers will.

As for myself, I can't think of anyone that I really care about getting 
mail to that is on one of those systems.




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