[187031] 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 12:30:49 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAHd7N8M8NLy-gr4jFOVmb=Gqj4faL0ir=pT53RT1OJH4gvBP+w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:30:46 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Eric Oosting <eric.oosting@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>
> 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?
FALSE! only ipv4 on fios!! silly people and their 'more than 32 bits'
addresses... ha! fiction I say!!
> -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 clearl=
y said
>> >> that it
>> >> considered me to be a spammer. I may be a lot of things but a spamm=
er
>> >> 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 fol=
k
>> >> knew
>> >> whom to contact and the problem was fixed in record time. I am hopi=
ng
>> >> that I will experience the same thing. I should not be a stranger t=
o
>> >> any
>> >> old time Nanog-ers. but right now I=E2=80=99m feeling really parano=
id!
>> >>
>> >
>
>
