Ones and Zeros: Virgin Internet one-ups Verizon

Virgin Internet one-ups Verizon

January 26, 2005	Computers and Software
Verizon recently started blocking european domains from sending mail to their users, without telling anyone of this new plan. That was the recent news in Wired. Today, we discovered that Virgin Internet has a similar but more comprehensive program (or 'programme') already in place! Let it not be said that our British Comerades are not at least as dedicated to shooting themselves in the foot (or 'foote') as we are. Virgin is blocking not just European mail, but all mail, including mail from Virgin itself. I'm sorry, but we're not accepting mail from ourselves at this time until we can verify that we're really the good guys if, in fact, we are.... This new and innovative service from Virgin seems to come from their new partners in content blocking, Critical~~Failure~~Path.net. Hey, Virgin is so important to them that they posted a "Case Study" [PDF] of it. Too bad they're not doing so well with it. The following error was generated from a message sent from the virgin support website via their internal servers. We recieved the same error from whiterose.org and yahoo.com addresses. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: support@virgin.net: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host inbound.virgin.net.criticalpath.net [209.228.36.2]: 554 Sorry, this message is rejected here. ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: Received: from gps1-win.server.virgin.net ([62.253.164.91]) by listsrv1-gui.server.virgin.net (Exim 2.10 #1) with esmtp id 1Cu1sg-0001KP-00 for (envelope-from me@whiterose.org); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:07:46 +0000 Message-ID: <32189159.1106802466050. JavaMail.web @gps1-win.server.virgin.net> I think this makes them a self-loathing ISP... For any of my friends stuck behind this new 'improved' service, I can still provide a few gmail invites...
.:Posted by Michael on January 26, 2005 11:14 PM:.

hah, that is a riot. the self-loathing ISP. it needs prozac or something.

.:Posted by particleman ( total) on February 5, 2005 5:19 PM:.