Now the motherfuckers at Comcast are blocking port 110!!!!

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On 14-Aug-2007, Juergen Nieveler wrote:

> Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote:
>
> > Now those motherfuckers are Comcast are blocking outgoing
> > calls to port 110. I get my Email through a service a 1 and 1
> > services in Germany, and find I cannot get through unless I
> > sign on to my subscription anonymity service. Why in the HELL
> > would they want to block outside mail services on port 110.
>
> IIRC 1&1 (unlike Web.de, their sister company) don't allow POP3-SSL on
> port 995. Is using IMAP an option for you?

I had that same problem with Earthlink (I use 1and1 also). I called them
(Earthlink) and got them to unblock it for me.
Squeaky wheel and all that.

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In message <13c48u8idslrl9e@corp.supernews.com> "ArtDent"
wrote:

>I had that same problem with Earthlink (I use 1and1 also). I called them
>(Earthlink) and got them to unblock it for me.
>Squeaky wheel and all that.

Any clue why they would block 110?

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spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net says...
> In message <13c48u8idslrl9e@corp.supernews.com> "ArtDent"
> wrote:
>
> >I had that same problem with Earthlink (I use 1and1 also). I called them
> >(Earthlink) and got them to unblock it for me.
> >Squeaky wheel and all that.
>
> Any clue why they would block 110?

Maybe it's a means to force people to use the El servers and to keep
people from pulling infected email from other servers?

Maybe the were trying to block external access to their POP servers and
screwed up and blocked in/out access at the same time?

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On 14-Aug-2007, DevilsPGD wrote:

> Any clue why they would block 110?

Spambots

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ArtDent wrote:
> On 14-Aug-2007, DevilsPGD wrote:
>> Any clue why they would block 110?
>
> Spambots

Why would spambots care about POP3 servers?

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Juergen Nieveler wrote:
> Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
>>>> Any clue why they would block 110?
>>>
>>> Spambots
>>
>> Why would spambots care about POP3 servers?
>
> Spambots don't. Clueless ISPs do - after all, Spambots are
> Email-related, POP3 is Email-related, so blocking POP3 will block the
> spambots.

You owe my table a new edge.

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Re: Now the motherfuckers at Comcast are blocking port 110!!!!

Juergen Nieveler wrote:

> Spambots don't. Clueless ISPs do - after all, Spambots are
> Email-related, POP3 is Email-related, so blocking POP3 will block the
> spambots.

right - gmail is also mail related - so they should also block port 80
and while they're at it:
blocking dns 53 would _definitely_ stop all this spam nonsense.
why didn't they think of that earlier ???

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