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Posted by Stan McCann on 09/29/05 02:04
"Greg N." <yodel_dodel@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:dhe8m6$k9q$1@online.de:
> Stan McCann wrote:
>
>> Some ISPs don't like it with email though;
>> too much spam comes from .va where va
>> stands for any 2 letter domain suffix. They filter on that basis.
>
> You mean they filter merely on the basis that the domain suffix is
> less than 3 letters? Anything that isn't com, net, and org is
> considered spam? Anything from Canada, France, Japan, Germany is
> spam?
>
> *ALL* (or almost all?) countries of the world use two letter domain
> suffixes.
>
> I have a hard time believing anybody can be so stupid.
>
I tend to do this at times; not give the complete story. I apologize;
you are not the only one that questioned this.
They do not filter on that alone, but it does add points with my ISP;
I've seen it. I'm going to try to find the message that I had to
retrieve from my spam folder on my ISPs server to post the relevant
portion.
I think you are right about all countries using the two letter suffix.
--
Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster/Computer Center Manager, NMSU at Alamogordo
http://alamo.nmsu.edu/ There are 10 kinds of people.
Those that understand binary and those that don't.
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