Zda se, ze americky ISP Verizon cenzuruje e-maily svych zakazniku a jeste lze

totojepast totojepast at atlas.cz
Mon Jan 24 00:31:04 CET 2005


Zda se, ze jde do tuheho:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/verizon_class_action/
Verizon faces lawsuit over email blocking
By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk)
Published Friday 21st January 2005 23:10 GMT

Aggrieved Verizon customers are invited to join a class action that
seeks damages arising from the US ISP's enthusiastic email filtering
policies. Philadelphia law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. filed suit
this week against Verizon on behalf of a DSL subscriber in a civil case
that seeks class action status.


totojepast wrote:
> Prekvapily me zpravy v americkych a britskych mediich o tom, ze
americky ISP
> Verizonu blokuje veskery prichozi e-mailovy provoz z Evropy.
Technicka
> podpora Verizonu toto popirala zakaznikum, tiskovy mluvci Verizonu se
snazil
> mystifikovat americke i britske novinare, britsky zpravodajsky server
> Theregister.co.uk zjistil, ze nemuze dorucit e-mailovy newsletter
svym
> americkym ctenarum. Problem trva jiz od prosince, byl jsem proto
zvedav, zda
> se jiz problem podarilo zvladnout. Snazil jsem se Verizonu poslat
dotaz
> e-mailem ze serveru, ktery lezi v Ceske republice a nikdy nebyl
zarazen na
> zadne cerne listine rozesilatelu spamu.
>
> Dotaz, zda je jeste stale blokovan e-mailovy veskery provoz z Evropy,
jsem
> adresoval technicke podpore a bezpecnostnimu oddeleni Verizonu na
kontaktni
> e-mailove adresy, ktere samotny Verizon publikoval. K memu velkemu
> prekvapeni mi postovni server odpovedel takto:
>
> "Your message could not be delivered for 4.0 hours.
> It will be retried until it is 5.0 days old.
> (...)
> <security at verizon.net>: connect to relay.verizon.net[206.46.170.12]:
> Connection
>     timed out
>
> <support at verizon.net>: connect to relay.verizon.net[206.46.170.12]:
> Connection
>     timed out"
>
> Cenzura e-mailove komunikace ze strany Verizonu tedy zrejme
pokracuje.
> Legracni je, ze cenzurovane pripojeni k Internetu je na strance
>
http://www22.verizon.com/foryourhome/sas/ProdDesc.asp?ID=10035&NPA=&NXX=&CategoryID=301&state=NY&TrackID=VFD
> nabizeno pod nazvem "Verizon Freedom Unlimited with DSL" :-)
>
> Chtel bych se zeptat zdejsich diskutujicich, zda jejich e-maily
odeslane z
> Evropy na adresy u Verizonu nakonec dorazily na misto urceni, nebo
ne.
>
> Zdravi Petr
>
>
>
> http://verizonpathetic.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000635.html
> Blocked Email from Europe
> posted 12-28-2004 08:23 PM
> Does anyone know anything about Verizon's new policy of blocking most
email
> to its customers from European ISPs? Apparently this has something to
do
> with spam coming from Europe so they just decided to block mail from
all
> these countries - without telling anyone about it!
>
> I am involved in projects where I receive emails from people in
Europe every
> day & this has come to a complete halt since the mail is not getting
> through.
>
> I spoke to Verizon tech support MANY times over the past 2 weeks &
none of
> them even admitted this had happened. They kept telling me there was
no
> problem with Verizon but that it was the European mail servers that
were
> bouncing the mail. This was completely untrue but if you call them
right now
> they'll still say the same thing.
>
> How is it possible that Verizon can just suddenly decide to block all
email
> from a huge part of the world & then deny it's happening? Hmmm maybe
this
> should have been in the 'pain' section.
>
> posted 01-02-2005 01:24 AM
> Absolutely right: I face same issue. VERIZON proposes to include
e-mail
> addresses in an "authorized" list. This is perfectly unacceptable. If
> nothing changes, I'll have to switch again but can't afford these
methods.
>
>
>
http://spam.gunters.org/archive/2005/01/11/say-it-isnt-so-verizon-blacklists-europe
> 1/11/2005
> Say It Isn't So. Verizon Blacklists Europe!
> Filed under: Imported - admin @ 8:05 am
>
> Say It Isn\'t So. Verizon Blacklists Europe!
>
>     Still waiting to seal the deal with that prospect in Great
Britain? If
> your email provider is Verizon, it may be a very long wait.
>
>     You see, Verizon seems to have found a new love: blocklisting.
And
> Europe seems to be among those things Verizon loves to block. or at
least,
> large swaths of European IP ranges. Customers, of course, are livid.
Some
> claim the service isn't even good enough for home use.
>
>     Verizon reps say the whole matter will be resolved in a few days.
As the
> problem has already dragged on since December 22, customers may be
forgiven
> for skepticism.
>
>     Blacklists are just one of the many tools in a Secure Email
Boundary
> (SEB) toolkit. Over reliance results in Sudden Customer Death (SCD).
>
>     Verizon's about to suffer a case of SCD.




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