Posted by Els on 09/29/05 00:56

Stan McCann wrote:

> 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.

Not as bad as filtering it out altogether, but it still sucks imo.

> Thankfully they just added a whitelist
> because I was unable to get mail from one person that I know (not 2
> letter suffix related).

I'm glad my ISP doesn't do stuff like that for me. (They do when
asked, but I won't ask.)

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