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[Dave Woyciesjes]

Tero Pesonen wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:52 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
>> On 8/9/2011 9:18 AM, Tero Pesonen wrote: 
>>> On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 14:33 -0500, Larry wrote:
>>>> *This has been the problem, I can not now send any email using TB via 
>>>> Charter, for it will not work, so in thinking that maybe GMAIL or KMAIL 
>>>> would be better, I have tried it, but I am not seeing any of my postings 
>>>> like I used too...
>>>>
>>>> I see what you are saying, you sent this email using your SMTP server, 
>>>> which is Charter, but like I said Charter will not let me send any email 
>>>> via another ISP...
>>> You mean that an internet service provider blocks SMTP connections to
>>> other SMTP servers than their own, and on all SMTP ports, not just 25? 
>>>
>>> Now that doesn't make any sense to me... why would they do that?
>>>
>>> If I buy am account at say Fastmail or Tuffmail or Luxsci or whatever, I
>>> most certainly will be using their SMTP server instead of some ISP one,
>>> which may or may not be up when I need it and probably spews out spam
>>> like there was no tomorrow, affecting also my own email delivery.
>>>
>>> Tero Pesonen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The problem has been this, I am not using my ISP Charter.net, I am
>> using someone else's ISP, so when I try to get my email from Charter,
>> that works fine, it is when I try to send email to charter it does not
>> work anymore like it did before...This is the whole problem...This
>> persons isp is CenturyLink a dialup, but that should not be the
>> problem, what I have now been told by a fellow on the list here is,
>> that charter will not let another isp send my mail to charter, you
>> have to be directly connected to charter for it too work...
>>
> If that is indeed the case, it sounds like a case of a broken ISP to me.
> 
> Tero Pesonen
> 
> 

Wait, what? Larry, you're saying that to use Charter's SMTP server, 
which _you_pay_ for access to, you have to be on their network? What 
about thier user's that are traveling, and at a hotel; does Charter just 
say "Tough nuts" to them?

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