Kind of OT - Error when forwarding spam to Centurylink

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:09:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:24:05 -0500, Chris wrote:
>>I also Bcc'd myself  
>
>If I Bcc to myself when using some ISPs, the mails I "receive" contain
>intact readable Bcc headers! IOW the mails Bcc'ed to myself are
>actually just copies, since if a mail was really sent via Bcc, the
>received mail wouldn't contain a Bcc header anymore.
>
>To ensure that the spam isn't already in their data base, send the mail
>to yourself by using an email address of another provider.
>
>If you should have very, very, especial super-good luck they
>really passed it on to the appropriate teams, IOW to the technicians.
>In Germany even the ISPs you pay don't care much about their customers
>and regarding some issues you even can't go to law, since the general
>terms and conditions might mention, that the internet service is just a
>gift, there's no legal right to get a working gift. What you pay for
>is not the gift, your monthly fee is for the service to get
>advertisings and the fee is even not for the rooter as a whole, it's
>just for the screw in the upper right corner of the router. The service
>is for Windows users only. As long as you receive advertisings and as
>long as the screw in the upper right corner of the router isn't
>corroded, they fulfil the contract. Assuming the screw in the upper
>right corner of the router should be corroded and you used the router
>to access the Internet with a Linux machine, you need to pay for the
>corroded screw, since the screw of the router is made for usage with
>Windows only.
>
>You probably consented to cover the price of your ISP's guitar lessons,
>see between 1:10 and 1:29 of
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BbUEAaFgw .

And! Are you using the original cables of the ISP's router? Much likely
the service fails, due to usage of not supplied cables ;). There is a
reason that the original cables are already way too short, to place the
router on a little table close to the wall box.