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

Thu Jan 14 17:30:46 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> '<font size=72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'
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> What is that, an /106?

FALSE! only ipv4 on fios!! silly people and their 'more than 32 bits'
addresses... ha! fiction I say!!

> -e
>
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>> 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.
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>> > http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/726/
>> >
>> > -Dan
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>> >
>> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Gordon Cook wrote:
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>> >> 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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