From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 19:34:15 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 627A037B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta3.adelphia.net (mta3.adelphia.net [64.8.50.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AEA43F85 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.161.217]) by mta3.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030618023414.GZIJ1347.mta3.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:34:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3EEFCFA5.7050008@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:34:13 -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: Brad Knowles References: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 02:34:15 -0000 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:50 PM -0400 2003/06/17, Bill Moran wrote: > >> 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. > > Don't bother. Find someone else that has a secure SMTP server (with > a static IP address) that they will let you use and which allows > SMTPAUTH and/or TLSSMTP, and then use them to relay all your mail. > Unfortunately, this may cost more money than buying a static IP address > for yourself. Well Brad (and anyone else who took interest in this thread) ... it's suddenly fixed. I was looking into it to get the details of what was wrong and now they've suddenly fixed it. I would be very happy except for the weeks that I spend arguing with them that they refused to admit anything was wrong ... but maybe my messages finally got through to someone who realized that I had a valid complaint. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com