[1st-mile-nm] FW: Delayed and or blocked emails

[Tom Johnson]

FYI.

-Tom Johnson

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roger Helbig <rhelbig at california.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:26 PM
Subject: [IRE-L] FW: Delayed and or blocked emails
To: IRE-L at po.missouri.edu


The following is really disturbing.  I have made a number of complaints
because mail to my Comcast friends is undeliverable.  I did not realize that
it has been a deliberate Comcast strategy to extort payment from competiting
ISPs.  I just want to let all of you who are not Comcast subscribers and
even those of you who may be that Comcast needs to be stopped and I intend
to spread this as far as possible.

Roger Helbig

-----Original Message-----
From: CaliforniaCom Staff [mailto:info at california.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:15 PM
To: alldomains at california.com
Subject: Delayed and or blocked emails


CaliforniaCom / SFO.COM Members:

We have been in contact with Comcast for months now trying
to resolve the delaying and blocking of emails. We
have also sent out several mass emails explaining what the
problem is. Here is a past link sent with some info.
http://www.comcastblacklist.com
Or you can do a google search for " Net Neutrality"

Below email is the latest we received on the FCC / Comcast
hearings.

We will continue to follow up each week to try and get this
resolved. It appears unless the FCC or courts force Comcast
to be regulated like other Internet companies, They will be
putting other ISP's out of business or force them to pay to
let others email their clients.

Google won a suit already and forced Comcast to unblock
their emails coming in. So you can setup a free email acct.
through gmail.com and be able to get emails through to
Comcast members. A large number of emails and or too large
size of emails will still get you personally blocked
though.

Wish we had betters news. Below is an email from an
Organization trying to help stop The Internet being taken
over by  Comcast, Verizon and  AT&T.

A new bill has been introduced in U.S. House that would
stop Comcast, Verizon and AT&T from controlling what you
do, and where you go online.

Inorder to stop Internet blocking and censorship once and
for all. Please take the time to fill out the information
below and push submit, this will automatically send it to
your members of Congress.
http://free.convio.net/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=241

Thanks for your continued support.
CaliforniaCom Inc. / SFO.com Staff

Email From:
http://freepress.net/
SavetheInternet.com <http://freepress.net/SavetheInternet.com> Just when you
thought they couldn't
stoop any lower,
Comcast stole your seat! Now we need your help to fight
back.

As you know, at an FCC hearing in Cambridge last Monday
designed to get to the bottom of Comcast's Internet
blocking, Comcast had the audacity to flood the meeting
room with paid seat-fillers -- shutting out more than 100
people who took time off from work and school to be there.

Why would Comcast stack the room? To prevent real people --
like you and me -- from attending the hearing and raising
our voices about Comcast's outrageous actions.

This is just one more reason why we must restore Net
Neutrality as the law of the land. And why
SavetheInternet.com (the coalition organized by Free Press
to fight for an open Internet)

Support the SavetheInternet.com Coalition

Comcast is the nation's largest cable TV operator and
second-largest Internet service provider. They're one of a
small handful of would-be Internet "gatekeepers" who have
the potential to radically redefine what the Internet
means.

They want to transform the Internet from a free and open
frontier into a tightly restricted corporate profit stream.
We can't let them succeed.

But we need your help to fight for the public interest at
the FCC and in Congress against the mega-companies like
Comcast who are already spending millions of dollars on
lobbyists and fake grassroots groups to defeat us.

SavetheInternet.com won't stoop to pay "seat fillers" to
stack the deck at FCC hearings.

But with your contribution we can organize Internet users
into a powerful, vocal force; provide expert research and
testimony to Congress and the FCC; expose the bad acts of
companies like Comcast; and make sure the public hears
about what these companies are doing.

We Need Your Help. Support SavetheInternet.com Today.

Comcast has billions. We have you. The Internet won't stay
open for long if people like us don't take action to defend
it.

Sincerely,

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
http://freepress.net/
SavetheInternet.com <http://freepress.net/SavetheInternet.com>

P.S. Watch this video of the Comcast seat-fillers on
Monday. They didn't know why they were occupying seats at
an FCC hearing. They just knew that a big company was
paying them to do it. Now that you know the truth, help
SavetheInternet.com fight back.


Take action on this important campaign at:
http://free.convio.net/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=241

Tell your friends about this campaign at:
http://free.convio.net/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1161

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