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

Thu Jan 14 17:05:42 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Christopher Morrow <
morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

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

What is that, an /106?

-e

> 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/
> >
> > -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!
> >>
> >
>