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poltr1Line noise update: Last night, I got dropped twice. The third time I connected, I stayed on for about an hour. Hoo-ah! Then I disconnected. Or so I thought. Tonight, I went back to my computer and it still thought I had a connection. It said I was connected for 25 hours! But when I tried to start Eudora and Netscape, it promted me to dial in. Then I picked up the phone, and heard a dialtone. Now I can't shut down the dial-up process. So I give it the ol' three-finger salute. It rebooted, I connected, and I've been on for over 40 minutes right now.
OK, I can't fault my new ISP -- internet service provider -- for that. (And if I did, they'd say it's not their problem, that their lines check out fine, which is what my old ISP said a few years ago -- they recently sold the business to another local ISP.) But what I can fault them for is blocked mail. Somehow, my ISP's IP address is listed in the spews.org database of sites that harbor or promote spammers. I have two friends in Buffalo who have a certain ISP, and a third who uses another ISP (and may have hs own domain name). Now any time I send them mail, it bounces back, and the returned message says that I've been blocked. WTF?
OK, I can't fault my new ISP -- internet service provider -- for that. (And if I did, they'd say it's not their problem, that their lines check out fine, which is what my old ISP said a few years ago -- they recently sold the business to another local ISP.) But what I can fault them for is blocked mail. Somehow, my ISP's IP address is listed in the spews.org database of sites that harbor or promote spammers. I have two friends in Buffalo who have a certain ISP, and a third who uses another ISP (and may have hs own domain name). Now any time I send them mail, it bounces back, and the returned message says that I've been blocked. WTF?
