If you define hilarity to mean an exasperating exercise in utter hopeless futility... Basically the tale of a Comcast user trying to send e-mail, only to find out his message is blacklisted and there is seemingly no way to *un*blacklist it. Sigh.
This is a company that has never been able to properly support its own broadband customers, much less innocent third parties impacted by its random actions. But that's just the point. Is there any reason to believe that non net-neutrality would make Comcast any better at handling such issues? Or is it far more likely that their blacklist messages will one day include the helpful hint that a small token payment to Comcast is what's required to speed the sender's message on its way? In that sense, Comcast's blacklist ineptitude might stand as the best real-world evidence right now of what disaster the end of net neutrality could spell for us all.
Why on earth would
outgoing mail be blacklisted? Was it "by sender", "by recipient", "content based" or what? Might this fellas PC be an unwitting SPAM zombie? No telling, but the Comcast 3-ring circus described sure sounds like fun.
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