Re: spam block by ISP ?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Ben Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 07:40 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>>
>> 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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> Personally I would advise using a mail server that isn't directly connected
> to your ISP especially if you are running a business.

This assumes, of course, that you have a Real ISP, and not a so-called
ISP that silently forces all port 25 traffic to their own mail
servers.

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