Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yrmfa-01p1-112.ppp11.odn.ad.JP!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: ODN - legit or twits? Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:06:31 +0900 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p1-112.ppp11.odn.ad.jp (61.116.158.112) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071651995 6301558 61.116.158.112 ([101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9037 "Brett Robson" wrote in message news:brp17v0phk@drn.newsguy.com... > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:33:55 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom ... > > I take it to mean that they don't shut down the accounts of > >spammers, since spamcop et al surely complain to the ISP before listing IP > >addresses as spammers. > > Yes. But the Island Mentallity applies in the internet business more that any > other. > If you manage to contact them AND get a response, Japanse ISPs give Japanese > answers, "We are very sorry to cause problems, we will handle this situation > carefully" This is pretty funny. The tech "support" dude told me that I should personally contact the ISPs who blacklisted me, and tell them how sorry I was to have caused them all this trouble, and to please unblacklist me. I'll give the gol thing a try right now. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom