From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 18:50:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C0437B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6308043FAF for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5I1oWOg006023 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:50:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:50:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 01:50:37 -0000 My ISP is Adelphia Cable Internet. Their tech folks are incompetent, and their tech support is useless. Their mail servers are broken and therefore any mail to @freebsd.org bounces. If you look at my headers, you'll see that I configured my box to be its own mail relay and I'm able to send to the FreeBSD lists (yippie!). However, it's still a DHCP addy and there's no way of hiding that. Thus, my emails are getting rejected by a lot of other people ... most recently, I'm finding that RoadRunner's entire SMTP system rejects me. I am NOT paying for a static IP. I don't need it, I have no need or desire to run any servers on this box - I wouldn't even bother to run my own mail relay if Adelphia would fix theirs so I could use it. When I try to talk to them, I get anything from "reinstall Windows" to flat-out ignored. Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can get them to fix their worthless shit? I've tried being nice. I've tried being an asshole. I have nothing to threaten with, as there are no other high-speed providers in this area. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com