Re: spam block by ISP ?

ring customer care or post on their facebook.


Dean



On 22/12/2010, at 7:30 PM, "Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]> wrote:

> my friend wanted to send a Christmas greeting to her clients, she made an
> HTML email with an image (about 70k total email size), and, I told her to
> put addresses into bcc, 20 or so at a time, and, send that way.
> 
> after she sent it maybe 3 times, so perhaps 50 to 70 emails, Optus blocked
> her smtp access 'for spamming' for 24 hours.
> 
> apparently, they will not unblock her smtp for 24 hours, no matter what
> 
> at which point I received an angry phone call, "didn't you know you're not
> allowed to do that?"
> 
> question: do any other ISPs have such draconian policies ?
> 
> like, 3 or 4 70k emails to about 20 recipients each, known to sender is
> hardly UCE, or is it ??
> 
> 
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