Rogers and 99.x.x.x

[Colin McGregor]

--- Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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!

Fair point. I have my own domain, have had it for over
a decade (mcgregor.org created on:05-Mar-1996 05:00:00
UTC). When I got my domain I tried to keep things
easy/simple ... stuff that is coming back to haunt
me...

> 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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