Blocking networks is often the only way of controlling unethical 
networks like OCN that do not police their own networks.



Sigi Rindler wrote:
> Got this one in my email...  Any comments???
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> I'm writing to alert you and the PC Users Grop about what seems to me to be
> very questionable action by AT&T Jens, which is my primary ISP (I also use
> ASAHI-NET).
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> For the second time in less than two weeks, AT&T Jens has blocked all
> OUTGOING e-mail containing an earthlink.net address. In response to my
> series of complaints to AT&T Jens about this, I received the following
> message.
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> "We regret to inform you that there are some restrictions on "earthlink.net"
> again since there were so many spam emails sent to our email servers from
> "earthlink.net" domain, and it was lifted
> on June 18, 2005.
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> "However, a large amount of spam emails from "earthlink.net" domain is
> constantly sent to our email server.
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> "According to circumstances of our email servers, there is a possibility
> that we are obliged to reject "earthlink.net" domain to prevent the overload
> of our mail servers."
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> I'm not very computer-knowledgeable, but it seems to me that Jens' blocking
> action makes no sense at all. This is like punishing the victim of a crime
> instead of punishing the criminal. It might be reasonable to block all
> incoming e-mail that has an earthlink.net address - provided of course that
> AT&T Jens also is contacting  earthlink.net to attempt to deal with the
> problem., but I'm not even sure about that.
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> I have requested to be contact by phone by a high-level, English-speaking
> AT&T Jens manager tomorrow. If that doesn't happen - or if that person is
> unable to satisfactorily explain why Jens' blocking action is necessary, I
> will feel obliged to cancel my Jens service. (Another reason for canceling
> Jens is its outrageous ?20/minute charge for access in the U.S.A. beyond its
> 120-min./month limit.)
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> I already use Asahi-net as a second ISP, because I feel that it might be
> good to have a backup in case my main ISP has a serious breakdown of
> service. But perhaps there is no need to have a second service.
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> In any case, I'd be interested in hearing what other You and/or other
> members of the PC Users Group have to say about
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> (1)   Jens' blocking action;
> (2) the need/desirability of having a second, backup ISP;
> (3) any recommendations for an ISP to use instead of Asahi-net, or as a
> primary or secondary ISP in addition to Asahi-net;
> (4) Anything else that might be relevant.
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> P.S.:  If Jens' doesn't resolve the problem properly within the next day or
> two, I plan to contact the Japanese and U.S. governments and to write one or
> more anti-Jens newspaper articles like the anti-NTT ones that I wrote for
> the Asahi Evening News some years ago.
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> I'd also be interested in hearing any suggestions regarding any other
> actions I can take against Jens. I'm thinking, for instance that I should
> contact an attorney (perhaps in both the Japan and the U.S.A.) to explore
> what legal action(s) - including class-action lawsuits by users - might be
> appropriate.
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