This list blocked by comcast? [Was: How does one unsubscribe and subscribe to this list?]

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Fri Sep 14 17:20:46 UTC 2007


Les wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:38 -0700, Philip Walden wrote:
>> Philip Walden wrote:
>>> How does one unsubscribe and subscribe to this list?
>>>
>>> I have been to https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list 
>>> many many time over the last 3 weeks to change my email address.
>>>
>>> I tried to change it. I tried to unsubscribe and re-subscribe. 
>>> Everytime mailman promises to send a confirmation message, but I never 
>>> receive it. I have no spam filter, so that is not it.
>>>
>>> How else can I get this service to unsubcribe and re-subscribe me?
>> So it appears that my comcast email provder may be blocking messages 
>> from this list server.
>>
>> If I subscribe as <me>@otherprovider.net, no problem. If I subscribe as 
>> <me>@comcast.net, nothing ever shows up.
>>
>> Talking with comcast security, they tell me the sender has to inform 
>> them to have themselves removed from the blocking list. Has anyone seen 
>> this before? How does one get redhat to investigate?
>>
>> Philip
>>
> You are paying the bills.  I think a gentle reminder to that tech about
> customer vs service issues might help, along with informing comcast that
> you can vote with your feet.
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 

Comcast couldn't care less if you threaten to cancel their "service". 
   In fact, I can't see any evidence that they care about anything. 
Maybe if a million of their customers cancelled, they might care, 
maybe not.

Regards,

John




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