Posted by Stan McCann on 09/29/05 01:48

Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote in
news:gq1ji2g6lrvq.dlg@locusmeus.com:

> Stan McCann wrote:
>
>> Chris Hope <blackhole@electrictoolbox.com> wrote in
>> news:dhcc1v$9ni$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:
>>
>>> Dylan Parry wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>> .co.uk is the most useless I have seen - and why does america
>>>>> not have a .co.us ?
>>>>
>>>> Not quite. .co.uk is very useful for Britain-based companies. The
>>>> reason that the US doesn't have .co.us is probably because they
>>>> hijacked the global .com for that purpose.
>>>
>>> There is actaully a .us TLD but it doesn't get used very much
>>> because US companies seem to prefer to go with .com
>>
>> I found it acceptable for a purely personal site (see sig). 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.
>
> I've never had any problems sending mail with my .nl domain. Can you
> name one ISP anywhere in the world that would filter my mail so the
> recipient doesn't receive it?
>

My ISP, zianet.com. Not completely blocked based on the two letter
suffix but it does add points. Thankfully they just added a whitelist
because I was unable to get mail from one person that I know (not 2
letter suffix related).

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