Rogers and 99.x.x.x

[Dave Germiquet]

Rogers evil through and through eh? :)

I boycotted them because of their immoral telemarketers.

I use ca.inter.net, but never had to use tech support from them. I
know a few people on teksavvy with no complaints.

On Nov 16, 2007 6:05 PM, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> --- 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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