Rogers and 99.x.x.x

[James Knott]

Colin McGregor 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.
>
>   

I have one of those 99 addresses and haven't noticed any bounced email. 
But then again, I don't send a lot of mail to yahoos.  ;-)

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