[TowerTalk] Attn all comcast subscribers

Jim McDonald jim at n7us.net
Sun Sep 3 23:17:52 EDT 2006


I get my domain name and email from Go Daddy (godaddy.com), and it's about
$10-20/year.  Their spam filter is adjustable by the user.  (And they have
memorable Super Bowl ads!)

Jim N7US 


-----Original Message-----

K7LXC at aol.com wrote:
> Howdy --
>
>     Apparently comcast had some sort of stomach flu or  something because
> it

I am a Comcast subscriber, but:

Comcast is very good at providing a very high speed pipe to
the internet (6 Mb/s with my cable modem).  I use them for
what they are good at, especially since I am too far from the
CO for DSL.

What Comcast is NOT good at is email.  I do NOT use Comcast as my mailman.
 I use another ISP (sonic.net) to handle my mail, and host my web sites. 
If you don't have web sites, you can get basic service from Sonic for $10
or $15 a month.  Sonic has various programmable Spam filters that you can
turn on and off, whitelist, etc.  You can get a daily Spam report to see
if any stuff you wanted got busted, and it can be recovered if
necessary.  You can get your own domain name to avoid the embarassment
of having an email address of the form joeham at comcast.net.

There are many other ISP's like Sonic.  Check around.

One more thing:  another dumb thing Comcast does is block the default
port used to send mail via your other ISP.  You need to select
an alternate port.  Make sure your ISP supports this.

Life is too short for Comcast.


Rick N6RK





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