[187028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verizon fios bounced a legit private email of mine telling me it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Jan 14 11:20:16 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1601131355360.19234@yuri.anime.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:20:13 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
'<font size=3D72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon@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 Veriz=
on
>> to FiOS customer for about the past six years at least I think maybe ei=
ght.
>> every now and then the Verizon server will bounce an email back and tell=
me
>> that it=E2=80=99s busy or not functioning but just now it bounced one ba=
ck and I=E2=80=99m
>> sorry I don=E2=80=99t have a screenshot of what it said but it clearly s=
aid 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 voluntee=
rs
>> to use the pair networks server and I always automatically take that cho=
ice
>> giving it never a second thought.
>>
>> it also reminded me that there was a limit on the amount of private emai=
ls
>> a customer could send.
>>
>> And it said I needed to take the alleged spam and send it to
>>
>> spamdetector.update@verizon.net and if I remember correctly wait at lea=
st
>> an hour and then try to send the message again.
>>
>> Stating very clearly that no human being would talk to me.
>>
>> what in God=E2=80=99s name is going on? Please a year and a half or tw=
o 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 a=
ny
>> old time Nanog-ers. but right now I=E2=80=99m feeling really paranoid!
>>
>
