Boing Boing: Update on "Did T-Mobile block TxTMOB messages during RNC?"

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Update on "Did T-Mobile block TxTMOB messages during RNC?"

In a BoingBoing post last week, one reader wondered if political motivations may have caused T-Mobile's reported "blocking" of messages from activist messaging service TxTMOB. Not so, replies BoingBoing reader Gabe, who says:

"I'm a network data analyst for T-Mobile. I've actually tested the network to see why those messages were blocked, and from the response our email-to-sms gateway is giving, apparently our immensely retarded spam filter thinks that txtmob's SMTP server is spamming us. Basically, if the network sees more than about a hundred messages coming from the same SMTP server within an hour, it just blacklists it. Stupid but true."

Link to previous Boingboing post.

posted by Xeni Jardin at 09:37:46 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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