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Originally Posted by Chaplain Kent
I was using the Verizon part they must share as common air way
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got no idea what that means....
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Originally Posted by Chaplain Kent
...but if I want to use e-mail then I must sign up for their service.
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that, I understand. they can (and do) block certain types of traffic, to try and hold you hostage. despicable, imo. data is data.
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Originally Posted by Chaplain Kent
Same thing when I do hit a hot spot for a wireless connection.
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Ok, that sounds like your regular isp (where your mail lives) simply doesn't allow connections to their smtp server from outside their network. which is silly...but not much you can do about it, except "complain". They say its a matter of preventing their servers from being used to relay spam, but there are plenty of easy ways for them to prevent that.
hardly any excuse for it, these days, and with the prevalence of wireless devices, people jumping onto hot-spots and internet cafes and the like, it seems quite burdensome.
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