verizon fios bounced a legit private email of mine telling me it was spam and they would not allow it

Thu Jan 14 16:20:13 UTC 2016

'<font size=72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon at sasami.anime.net> wrote:
> This is what's going on at verizon.
>
> http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/726/
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> -Dan
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Gordon Cook wrote:
>
>> dear Nanog
>>
>> Sorry to bother you,   I am sitting here in shock,   I have been a Verizon
>> to  FiOS customer for about the past six years at least I think maybe eight.
>> every now and then the Verizon server will bounce an email back and tell me
>> that it’s busy or not functioning but just now it bounced one back and I’m
>> sorry I don’t have a screenshot of what it said but it clearly said that it
>> considered me to be a spammer.   I may be a lot of things but a spammer I am
>> not.  ;-)   when I get an email bounced back Apple OS X  always volunteers
>> to use the pair networks server and I always automatically take that choice
>> giving it never a second thought.
>>
>> it also reminded me that there was a limit on the amount of private emails
>> a customer could send.
>>
>> And it said I needed to take the alleged spam and send it to
>>
>> spamdetector.update at verizon.net  and if I remember correctly wait at least
>> an hour and then try to send the message again.
>>
>> Stating very clearly that no human being would talk to me.
>>
>> what in God’s name is going on?   Please a year and a half or two years
>> ago when a route  to Ecuador was being filtered a couple of NANOG folk  knew
>> whom to contact and the problem was fixed in record time.   I am hoping
>> that I will experience the same thing.   I should not be a stranger to any
>> old time Nanog-ers.   but right now I’m feeling really paranoid!
>>
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