RE: [cobalt-users] interesting; verizon and smtp

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> This policy just affected one of my customers, and it really
> sucks. The only
> way I see around it is to set your email address to
> username@xxxxxxxxxxx and
> set the reply-to to your email alias. It still sucks becuase everyone can
> see your from address when they read your email, and you may end
> up getting
> stray emails to that account.
>

What really is poor on their part is any valid gte.net, etc. email address
can be used as the From address and their SMTP will allow the relay
regardless of where the mail is sent from. Why they can't recognize mail
coming from valid IP addresses in their network, as virtually every other
dialup ISP does, is beyond me. We're not talking a free service like NetZero
trying to prevent spammers from having multiple accounts here.

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Dan Kriwitsky