<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>Requiring ISPs to tell customers what they are blocking and why sounds as a good idea to me. I am a customer of the same ISP for long time, and they are blocking every application I use! <br><br>* I don't have secure IRC access for some months now (while regular IRC connections work, but I prefer to authenticate securely).<br>
* I am unable to connect to Google Jabber server using a desktop clients for more than a year.<br>* They are limiting my access to CVS/SVN/Mercurial servers. While small transfers work, I have to use workarounds when I have to transfer more than few kilobytes. <br>
<br>When you call their "support services" they say the problem is not on thier side. Too strange that I can access these servers from another ISPs while the problem is "not their". <br><br>Tomer.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 20:55, ronys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronys@gmx.net">ronys@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying customers, and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting anything beyond "there's a problem, we're working on it".<br>
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Only after slowly spelling out what my problem was (no, I don't want to send e-mail via your servers, thank you) did I get them to log a request to unblock port 25 from my home account (still waiting for my work account to be unblocked).<br>
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I realize that spam is a problem, but this 'solution' strikes me as, how to put it, inappropriate.<br>
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Am I the only linux-il subscriber affected? It seems to me that the more customers that write/call to complain, the sooner they'll see the error in their ways.<br>
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Pesach sameach,<br>
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Rony<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tomer Cohen<br><a href="http://tomercohen.com">http://tomercohen.com</a><br>Sent from Haifa, Israel<br>Fred Allen - "Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great."
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