ARGH: COGECO IS BLOCKING MAIL FROM GMAIL

Mike Robinson

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Mar 11, 2006, 10:18:33 AM3/11/06

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Well not cogeco, but their spam filter is. I called cogeco and asked if they
would whitelist my email address so you know I could email everyone I know,
the response I got was "We do not whitelist anyone, for the protection of
our users". Aren't I one of your users, am I going to spam people? This is
ridiclious!!!

Bored

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Mar 11, 2006, 1:15:32 PM3/11/06

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"Mike Robinson" <ont...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:HUBQf.130802$8d1....@read1.cgocable.net...

Other ISPs offer cable now. Switch.

Mary Sunshine

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Mar 11, 2006, 1:11:33 PM3/11/06

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Cogeco's spam filter is disastrous. I moderate a Yahoo group, and *regularly* cogeco bounces all the posts that our cogeco members are supposed to receive. They just bl**dy well block Yahoo and refuse to do anything about it. Well, in the last few weeks things have been better. Maybe Yahoo shoveled some $$$ at the spam filter company. Gmail needs to do the same obviously.

What's the solution?

Maybe register your own domain name, and set up a pop3 / smtp facility for yourself through that webhost.

Like, you would have a host for mydomain.ca

Then set up your own email account there as myn...@mydomain.ca

Set up your email client(s) to use the pop3 and smtp servers of mydomain.ca

Anyone else here have any other suggestions?

M.S.
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Mary Sunshine

Mike

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Mar 12, 2006, 2:23:23 AM3/12/06

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Yeah fuck cogeco alltogether, complain to crtcc.

Rick Carroll

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Mar 12, 2006, 10:17:18 AM3/12/06

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I was with Cogeco a while ago. I'm pretty sure that you don't have to
use their email filter. Sympatico's system would do the same thing and
probably worse.

I use a program called ePrompter to preview my mail and then I decide
what to Kill or Keep. Forget about Cogeco's email filter. Filter's
tend to be more trouble then their worth. Try ePrompter and then you
have control.

That's it....

You can also do what I did. I registered a domain name for $30.00 a
year and I have my own webspace at $20.00 a month. There is even a
cheaper package. It's all through Bell ( not Bell Sympatico ). It's
great, reasonable and I've had no problems whatsoever. Personally
I hate Sympatico but having Bell take care of you directly is 100
times better.

Rick Carroll
Kingston, Ontario
http://www.rickcarroll.ca/
613-546-4904

onthost [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com

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Mar 12, 2006, 12:29:52 PM3/12/06

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Quote: Unregistered wrote on Sun, 12 March 2006 10:17
----------------------------------------------------
> Originally posted by: gotomywebsite&#64contactmethere.ca (Rick Carroll)

>
> I was with Cogeco a while ago. I'm pretty sure that you don't have to
> use their email filter. Sympatico's system would do the same thing and
> probably worse.
>
> I use a program called ePrompter to preview my mail and then I decide
> what to Kill or Keep. Forget about Cogeco's email filter. Filter's
> tend to be more trouble then their worth. Try ePrompter and then you
> have control.
>
> That's it....
>
> You can also do what I did. I registered a domain name for $30.00 a
> year and I have my own webspace at $20.00 a month. There is even a
> cheaper package. It's all through Bell ( not Bell Sympatico ). It's
> great, reasonable and I've had no problems whatsoever. Personally
> I hate Sympatico but having Bell take care of you directly is 100
> times better.

The only problem is cogeco employs a STMP side spam filter, you have no choice. I found out what is wrong though, apparently gmail does not attack the senders IP address to the headers, and this is seen as a mark of a spammer i guess??

tony summerfelt

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Mar 13, 2006, 2:25:05 PM3/13/06

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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:11:33 -0500, Mary Sunshine
<fsrvival[at]kingston[dot]net> wrote:

>Cogeco's spam filter is disastrous. I moderate a Yahoo group, and *regularly* cogeco bounces

one day cogeco bounced over 100 legit email to me at my cogeco
address...

>What's the solution?

i now use a third party provider for email.

and it looks like we'll all be using third party providers for our
newsgroups also...

basically wei'll be paying for cogeco's highspeed web browsing service
:)

http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1
telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org

ont...@gmail.com

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Mar 26, 2006, 5:36:22 PM3/26/06

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If your paying $30 a year for a domain name I have some swamp land in
Flordia to sell =)
www.domainsatcost.ca, also your overpaying for webhosting/mail hosting.
Look at american providers, $3.99/month. It's all beacuse bandwidth is
WAY cheaper in the states. I do have a separate domain name and email
but gmail is really really good for me since i need to access email
many times a day from various locations. They are unblocking it now tho