Reports are flowing that Verizon, in an attempt to reduce spam, has blocked all incoming emails from European servers. Supposedly it took them two days to implement it. I have been told it is still in effect, 3 days later.
The Register originally reported:
Paul Wood, chief information analyst at email security firm MessageLabs, said it took Verizon two days to whitelist the IP addresses of its European messaging servers from the time it first complained its international users were having problems sending email to customers of the US ISP.
Another example of the "latent" monopolostic commercial power that has been given to these companies as a result of consumer ignorance. Had the digital knowledge gap NOT been so wide, a bozo move like this would cost a company half of its subscribers. In today's world, Verizon execs are probably looking forward to the bonus they'll receive for beating this quarter's Wall Street estimates, due to reduced bandwidth costs.
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