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[strredwolf]

If you've seen those Verizon commercials about Comcast v. their DSL service, then listen to this:

When my sister moved to Edgewater (near Annapolis) from Odenton, she contacted Comcast to get Internet service and cable.  Comcast said "Sure, we can do it now."  It was activated, and it's running at a decent speed (3mbps down, 256mbps up).

Aparently, the bro-in-law wasn't happy about it, and had her contact Verizon.  Go through that rigamaroule...

...and return the modem this past weekend.  Aparently, Verizon kept stringing them along, so they're on Comcast now.

I'm also on cable too, with Cablespeed through MDM.net.  I checked Verizon's website... and they STILL don't have DSL working to my house.

Just saying "We can get it there" doesn't mean they will.

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[gentle-wolfox.livejournal.com]

They block it on people running open relays marked for spam, or people's systems that were "trojaned" into being SNMP relays. However, they are slow to do so. The abuse guys have to figure out whether or not to pull the plug, but by then, yes, the damage has been done. If you REALLY want someone to bitch about, pick on the people over on Comcast. ;) The minute my ISP blocks ANY of my ports against my will or ability to use properly - I move. ;)

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Comcast is already working on port 25 outbound blocking. Now if they will only reply to their abuse@ email and take action immedately!!! Unfortunately, I have to lump Comcast and SBC together as their abuse teams are rather asleep at the switch.