Re: spam block by ISP ?

On 12/22/2010 07:40 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> ring customer care or post on their facebook.
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> Dean
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> On 22/12/2010, at 7:30 PM, "Voytek Eymont"<[email protected]>  wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> after she sent it maybe 3 times, so perhaps 50 to 70 emails, Optus blocked
>> her smtp access 'for spamming' for 24 hours.
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>> apparently, they will not unblock her smtp for 24 hours, no matter what
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>> at which point I received an angry phone call, "didn't you know you're not
>> allowed to do that?"
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>> question: do any other ISPs have such draconian policies ?
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>> like, 3 or 4 70k emails to about 20 recipients each, known to sender is
>> hardly UCE, or is it ??
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>> Voytek
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Personally I would advise using a mail server that isn't directly 
connected to your ISP especially if you are running a business.
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