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Re: Need a cox.net mail server contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Taylor)
Thu Mar 11 01:18:35 2004

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:19:18 -0800
From: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


The IP that 2mbit.com inhabits is on a Road Runner commercial block, 
which is allocated for small to mid-sized businesses.  There is no 
reason for commercial cable networks to be blocked under the same 
pretenses that consumer cable networks are blocked.  

Just my 2 cents

Greg

Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:34:29AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>If a cox.net mail admin, or someone who knows a cox.net mail admin could
>>contact me offlist about them blocking 2mbit.com in their mail servers, that
>>would be great.  I've tried contacting their postmaster@cox.net with UNBLOCK
>>in the subject, but it just bounces the mail back at me with the same error as
>>if I was trying to contact one of their users.   Sooo, you kinda see the
>>issue.
>>    
>>
>
>Get used to it, a lot of mail servers are rejecting mail that comes from
>DSL and Cable modem lines, you're hosting 2mbit.com on roadrunner (despite
>calling it an 'RF T1' (??)) and thus, it will be blocked.
>
>  
>
>>Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
>>http://www.sosdg.org
>>
>>The Abusive Hosts Blocking List
>>http://www.ahbl.org
>>    
>>
>
>The irony..
>
>  
>



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