Damn spammers.

[estirise]

Okay, I hate spammers.

I really hate spammers more now, if possible.

SBC (my DSL provider) has now blocked port 25 access, which is how I send mail out of an ISP account that I still use and also my estirose.net accounts. I have two options: 1) set all of my smtp to go out of SBC's servers, or 2) jump through the hoops to get SBC to unblock port 25 on my account.

I am a tad bit irritated at SBC for putting the port 25 block on my account, even more annoyed that they didn't announce it, but I hate the spammers that made it necessary for them to do it even more.

ETA: And there's no intelligent life at SBC. I've just confirmed it.

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[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

And there's no intelligent life at SBC. I've just confirmed it.

Like talking to a brick wall, I take it? They can't grasp that the port blocking has effectively blocked your e-mail?

[estirose.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, they did understand port 25 blocking.

What they didn't comprehend was 'yes, I've put in the request to unblock port 25, I'd like to snailmail a letter to you guys to complain that nobody mentioned that they were going to start port 25 blocking'.

And if they don't haul the block off my account, I'm going to be rather pissed off at them.

(And thank goodness for MacOSXHints, for giving me the answers I needed to look at SBC to see if they were doing port blocking.)