On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 10:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Yes, the last mile is important but they are not permitted to block that > > at this point in time. > > > They also filter your email "to stop virus etc" and there is no way to > opt out except to have everyone use a special address (change the > verizon in my address to verizononline) to send me an email that > supposedly bypasses this filtering. When I tried to sign up for > wengophone, I wanted to do that, but there was no way they (wengophone) > would accept an email address that didn't match the one in the headers > of the message they received. So I'm screwed & didn't even get kissed. So get a free mailbox at gmail.com or a similar service and use that address when conversing with competitors. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx