unwise filtering policy from cox.net

Tue Nov 20 23:45:50 UTC 2007

Heh better then my all time favorite was the "mailbox is full" reply
from an abuse@ address for an ISP based in Nigeria who had a few servers
trying to open umpteen fraud accounts :D

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
goemon at anime.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:21 PM
To: 'nanog at merit.edu'
Subject: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

if anyone from cox.net is reading...

    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<abuse at cox.net>
     (reason: 552 5.2.0 F77u1Y00B2ccxfT0000000 Message Refused.  A URL
in the content of your message was found on...uribl.com.  For resolution
do not contact Cox Communications, contact the block list
administrators.)

This seems a rather unwise policy on behalf of cox.net -- their
customers 
can originate scam emails, but cox.net abuse desk apparently does not
care 
to hear about it.