[187029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verizon fios bounced a legit private email of mine telling me it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Oosting)
Thu Jan 14 12:05:46 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZpJaQvrDCyUWYRmx5mopFOqWWOXUjRp-0g2NBoja-Q1w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:05:42 -0500
From: Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Christopher Morrow <
morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> '<font size=3D72>4 MILLION IP ADDRESSES!!!</font>'
>
What is that, an /106?
-e
> 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
> 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=E2=80=99s busy or not functioning but just now it bounced one =
back and
> I=E2=80=99m
> >> sorry I don=E2=80=99t 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 spamme=
r
> 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@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=E2=80=99s 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 hopin=
g
> >> that I will experience the same thing. I should not be a stranger to
> any
> >> old time Nanog-ers. but right now I=E2=80=99m feeling really paranoi=
d!
> >>
> >
>
