Comcast: Avoid.
Jan. 17th, 2008 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoIt appears that after 10 years of running my own mail server and being responsible for my own mail, Comcast has decided to shut down inbound port 25 sometime this morning.
Mail to tao.merseine.nu is down.
If this is the case, I will stop being a Comcast customer as soon as possible. I did not sign up with Comcast: I signed up with MediaOne. AT&T bought them. Then Comcast bought the cable service from AT&T. Over time, the prices went up, the bandwidth went up, and the quality of customer support went down.
My choices are Verizon FIOS and RCN. VZ would be OK for network access, but I dislike their TV offering, and I don't want them ripping out my copper. Looks like RCN.
[later] After talking to four people at Comcast for 32 minutes, they claim that I am a spammer. How stopping inbound email will stop me from spamming I do not know. My blood pressure is much, much, much too high.
Mail to tao.merseine.nu is down.
If this is the case, I will stop being a Comcast customer as soon as possible. I did not sign up with Comcast: I signed up with MediaOne. AT&T bought them. Then Comcast bought the cable service from AT&T. Over time, the prices went up, the bandwidth went up, and the quality of customer support went down.
My choices are Verizon FIOS and RCN. VZ would be OK for network access, but I dislike their TV offering, and I don't want them ripping out my copper. Looks like RCN.
[later] After talking to four people at Comcast for 32 minutes, they claim that I am a spammer. How stopping inbound email will stop me from spamming I do not know. My blood pressure is much, much, much too high.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-17 07:29 pm (UTC)What's worse is that apparently it depends on which cable head end you're attached to as to whether they block you or not:
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cm65c-2a0:/Applications cpatti$ nc -v mail.feoh.org 25
DNS fwd/rev mismatch: mail.feoh.org != c-65-96-182-200.hsd1.ma.comcast.net
mail.feoh.org [65.96.182.200] 25 (smtp) open
220 mail.feoh.org ESMTP Postfix (2.2.10) ready to puke on your shoes.
quit
221 Bye
My domain appears to still be mail-able.
I've been thinking of ditching the admin hassle and switching to Google apps for domains anyway though :)
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-17 07:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-17 07:37 pm (UTC)For me, it's a much easier decision.
Personally, I end up using my domain's mail capabilities once in a blue moon. Most of my personal traffic has switched to Gmail anyway.
I used to be wary of the privacy aspects, but in truth anything you send over the internet in any form is shouting into a crowded room, so why bother?
If I need to dissuade the casual peeping tom I can use S/MIME or worst case GPS.