Re: Seeking DoN

"DoN. Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Rich,
>
> I'm posting this as well as sending a "Cc: " to you, so if
> others have been having problems contacting me, they will also know why.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Richard Morse  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've tried e-mailing DoN at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >and keep getting:
> >
> >Persistent Transient Failure: Delivery time expired
> >Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Action: failed
> >Status: 4.4.7 Unable to contact host for 1 days,
> >Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Persistent Transient Failure: Delivery time
expired
> >
> >Is there a problem with this address? Does anyone have another address
> >for Don Nichols?
>
> This *is* the proper address.
>
> The problem is that you have Comcast as an ISP, and I have been
> *flooded* by spam relayed through systems on Comcast, and have been
> adding IP addresses to block based on the spam (and virii).  Normally,
> this policy only blocks individual systems, and not the mail servers
> which all customers should be mailing through, and virii and spam from
> infected/backdoored systems normally send direct from the system to the
> victim, so only they are blocked.  But, the flood of swen virii happen
> to actually use the ISP's mail server, and before I realized that, I had
> several mail servers in the blocklist.
>
>
<etc>
When the sven flood started my mailbox on the mindspring server was getting
so many Microsoft patches mostly 143 K or 156 K that the 10 meg mailbox was
overloading twice a day. Now it is down to less than 1 meg  per day. Most of
them are now bounced messages originating from infected machines that had my
return address forged.thousands of PC's in cyberspace contain my return
address  in the address book. I never knew I was so popular. If only those
folks would each send me a dollar!