[lit-ideas] Re: Paranoia
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 19:41:37 -0800
Effective immediately, Julie and I have signed up for a 12-year stint in the
Peace Corps.
Julie asked that we be sent to the most desolate region where not even
electricity exists.
See you in 12 years,
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:52 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Paranoia
> Here's the paranoia-inducing e-mail I promised you, as I have no idea how
> many of the Lit-id posts you read. Btw, Andreas (runner of the list-serve)
> is
> one of the uber-cyber-gurus of the world. He knows all. Anything he says
> re. computers I trust implicitly. His website e-mail is well worth
> subscribing
> to (he even has advice re. skin care, pass it on to Barb, funky recipes,
> business tips and news, etc. Eclectic is his middle name). Anything he says
> about politics I merely tend to agree with. Most would consider him a
> wild-eyed liberal conspiracy theorist. He's incredibly well-traveled at the
> best
> moments -- was there to see the Berlin wall coming down, e.g. Check out his
> journal of e-mails from his wife, dying from an incurable disease after an
> organ
> transplant. In a way he is much like you -- a spiritual secularist,
> self-avowed cynic because mysticism is just too close to the bone.
>
> Julie
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] ISPs are blocking
> outgoing email Date: 2/3/05 8:30:22 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
> _andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx) To:
> _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
> SBC and Verizon, along with other large ISPs, got the bright idea to block
> port 25 for all
> outgoing email to servers other than their own.
>
> If you are using SBC or Verizon DSL and you notice that you can't send
> email, this is the
> problem. Don't waste time by calling their tech support; they're clueless on
> this one.
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> 1) Temporary Solution: Switch your outgoing SMTP server from whatever you're
> using
> (smtp.whatever.com) to SBC's smtp server (smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com). Open
> your email, select
> the account, and modify its properties. Checkmark the "My server requires
> authentication"
> and click Settings. Enter your SBC account name (for example,
> hillaryclinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx )
> and your SBC password, and click Remember Settings.
>
> If you have several computers on servers on the DSL line, just use the same
> account name and
> password for all of them.
>
> 2) Better Solution (but takes longer) if you use SBC: Go to
> http://help.sbcglobal.net/servabuse.php and select Abuse Type = "**Opt Out
> 25" and type
> "Please let me opt out of Port 25 blocking." In 12 hours or so (or longer),
> SBC will unblock
> their blocking of your Port 25.
>
> Hang on to this email. The ISPs are s slowly blocking this through their
> service areas. If
> you notice that you can't send email, this info will solve your problem.
>
> If you use SBC or Verizon and you haven't been blocked yet, we suggest that
> you go ahead and
> request to opt out of their blocking. Otherwise, they will block your email
> and it will take
> a day or two for them to unblock it.
>
> Pass this on to your friends, colleagues, and other lists.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
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