Re: virus: META: aol.com is blocking all mail from lucifer.com

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 15:44:41 MDT

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    David,
        Remember my own little "email address" problem from a couple of years ago. I
    think you were in the loop on it with Hermit.

    Note the date: Two days after 9/11/2001.

    Mass hysteria!!!

    Walter
    PS--I hope you have better luck with AOL than I did with Tulsa.com.
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    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: virus@lucifer.com list mail FILTERED BY TULSA.COM--HELP
    Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:32:15 -0500
    From: Walter Watts <walwatts@tulsa.com>
    Reply-To: walwatts@tulsa.com
    Organization: "The Future's so Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"
    To: virus <virus@lucifer.com>

    Hermit,

        I'll finish reading and responding to your post on your experience
    with an Arab family over the next day or two.
    Cecelia and I lived in Khamis Mushayt, SA, just about 100 miles SW of
    Mecca in 1983.
    At the moment, though, I've got something quite different to deal with
    that I've got to decide a course of action.

    It appears the domain that hosts my email account
    http://www.tulsa.com
    has suddenly decided to filter mail from virus@lucifer.com

    I called this morning and talked to the wife of the owner of the domain,
    who, when I told her of my lack of list mail for 36 hours from
    virus@lucifer.com, replied:
    "who would want email from such a domain"...."sounds like devil worship
    to me"

    When I tried to explain in an intelligent way that it was purposefully
    named to repel people of low intelligence and mytho-literal bents, she
    continued to ask more questions of the type of things discussed in the
    forum.

    I tried to explain, but eventually she asked "don't you people believe
    in god"

    Before the words "basically no" had escaped my lips, I heard the words
    "I'll pray for you".

    I continued to probe the whereabouts of my email, and several scenarios
    were introduced by her, but all in a "we didn't change anything tone".

    1) could be in virus box, maybe because of originating domain name

    2) something else triggered a filter

    and anyway, her words kept ringing "who would want mail from that domain
    anyway"????

    So now I'm faced with several choices: (after verifying with David
    McFadzean that I'm still really subscribed)

    BTW--this is not my ISP, only my email host.

    1) blow 'em off and use either one of my @cox.net email addresses or one of
    my @walterwatts.com emails.

    2) fight 'em--they host one really large website that I originally put
    up (and with a little effort could probably get moved)

    3) any ideas???

    Walter

    --
    Walter Watts
    Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
    David McFadzean wrote:
    > AOL is blocking all mail sent from lucifer.com with this message
    > 550 DIRECT CONNECTION FROM DIAL-UP OR DYNAMIC-IP DENIED
    >
    > Needless to say, the server is not a dial-up or dynamic-ip. The IP is
    > 209.115.169.3 and the reverse DNS resolves to javien2-3.spots.ab.ca. Any
    > suggestions?
    >
    > David
    >
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    Walter Watts
    Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc.
    "Reminding you to help control the human population. Have your sexual partner spayed
    or neutered."
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