[olug] Cox and port 25

[Bob McCoy]

To Nathan's point about running a valid business and work at home, Cox
would probably maintain that you should be using Cox at Work and not
Cox at Home.

>From the acceptable use policy
<http://support.cox.net/custsup/policies/acceptableuse.shtml#aup>:
Commercial Use.  The Service is designed for personal use of the
Internet and may not be used for commercial purposes.  You may not
resell or otherwise charge others to use the residential Service.  You
agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet service
provider, or for any other business enterprise, including, without
limitation, IP address translation, or similar facilities intended to
provide additional access. 

I'm not saying it's right.  I'm just saying that you wouldn't get a lot
of sympathy from Cox for your argument.

I do not work for Cox.  I am not siding with Cox.  Nor do I wish to
argue about the Cox at Work pricing structure, the fact that life is
unfair, or anything else.  However, as a sidebar, I have observed that
our Cox at Work connection at the office is not affected by the port 25
block (yet).

Now if you're using Cox at Work and have this issue, I truly apologize for
mischaracterizing your email and I believe you have a legitimate case.
Otherwise, I think you're just stuck like the rest of us.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Jay Hannah
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:56 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox and port 25



What a strange situation... I never thought I'd be defending Cox when
they (once again) block something and piss me off. I guess I'm just a
lot angrier at spammers nowadays than ISP who try to fight them... 

Anyhoo, here's two more cents:

"Nathan Rotschafer (OLUG)" wrote:
> Now consider I run a valid business and work from home and need to 
> send company email from my house what do I do?  If the email comes 
> through Cox's servers some place will tag it as spam or refuse 
> delivery based upon the fact that it is "forged".  Now what do I do?  
> In my opinion Cox just put a major blow to work from home business 
> people and that is completely unacceptable.

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