Rogers and 99.x.x.x

[Aaron Vegh]

Hi Colin,
Rogers has been using Net 99 for a while now, and this is the first
I'm hearing of this problem. Then I realized why I haven't been
affected by it... I don't use Rogers email!

As far as I'm concerned, Rogers is nothing more than a pipe into my
home. I run my own email server. Now, you don't necessarily need to go
that far, but this is as good an occasion as any to change your email
address to something hosted with a third party. I don't understand why
anyone would wed their email address to an ISP anyway. That's just a
recipe for lock-in!

Get your own domain name, set it up on an inexpensive hosting package
and use Gmail for Domains or something.

Cheers!
Aaron.

On Nov 16, 2007 5:18 PM, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> A note and a warning regarding Rogers high speed
> Internet. The story as far as I have been able to
> piece things together.
>
> Rogers recently got the newly released 99.x.x.x block
> of IP numbers and has started allocating those to
> their customers. This is proving to be a total pain in
> the @#$% for those of who have been unlucky enough to
> get one of said IP numbers (and yes, I got one of
> those numbers last Friday). Seems that in the past a
> number of spammers have used the 99.x.x.x block to
> push the usual spam nonsense... This means a number
> major sites (including ironically, and perversely
> Yahoo (who Rogers is partnered with for e-mail)) are
> blocking traffic from 99.x.x.x IP numbers.
>
> So, this means that to get e-mail I need to take my
> laptop to a spot where I get a usable WiFi signal
> (currently a 45 minute trip from home (yes, I will see
> about something free and closer)). I have found how
> toxic some of the Rogers tech support staff can be
> (they will not support Linux, they don't want to
> support the officially supported Mac OS X 10.4, and
> they want to make it clear any problems are because of
> something I did). I have called Rogers billing
> department who have promised $50 off my next bill for
> my trouble (which. is fair enough for a week without
> e-mail, but, will not be enough if this continues for
> much longer).
>
> So, shifting from Rogers would be a royal pain, but
> the current situation, which may take some time to
> resolve, is also not acceptable. So, I am looking
> around for other options. I have heard some nice
> things said about eicat.ca which has Dave Gilbert (one
> of the Unix Unanimous regulars) involved, so it is
> Linux polite, and very *BSD friendly (which beats
> Linux hostile :-) ). Any other suggestions, as I will
> not take another week of the current situations?
>
>
>
> Colin McGregor
>
> P.S. I guess it should be noted that until this past
> week I was basicly fairly happy with Rogers, problems
> were rare, and when they did happen were fairly
> quickly resolved... This past week ... they have been
> the ISP from hell ... :-( .
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