Re: Anti-recommendation: Comcast.

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Jan 19, 2008 10:19 AM, Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> The way I worked my way around this problem was to buy the comcast 
> business service. It's about $150 a month, I get 5 IP address and a good 
> bandwidth. Since I run my business through this setup, it works for me. 
> In return I have full control over all ports. 
> 
> Steve. 
> 
> 
> Dan Ritter wrote: 
> > At about 3:17 AM on Thursday the 17th, Comcast imposed a filter on port 25 
> > (SMTP) inbound to my cable modem. 
> > 
> > Around mid-morning, I realized that the only mail messages I was getting 
> > were generated at my house. I checked my logs, verified functionality 
> > -- everything was working properly except inbound SMTP from external 
> > sources -- checked my firewall and rebooted it, just in case. Then I 
> > called Comcast. 
> > 
> > That took a while, of course. After four tech support people each 
> > listened to my problem description and then asked me to restart Outlook, 
> > I talked to a supervisor who told me I was a spammer and they would not 
> > be removing the filter under any circumstances. 
> > 
> > This morning I discovered that, in fact, this has been rolled-out across 
> > the country. 
> > 
> > I made arrangements to leave Comcast, of course. I've only been a customer 
> > of this network for ten years. 
> > 
> > The freedom to manage your own email is essential in today's legal 
> > environment, in which the government appears not to need a subpoena to 
> > read your email if a third party stores it for you. 
> > 
> > -dsr-