It has come to our attention that anyone on our email system cannot email anyone with a verizon.net, bellatlantic.net or gte.net (which are Verizon domains).
It is now confirmed that Verizon is blocking all international IP space from RIPE and APNIC and only unblocking IP’s when escalations are made. The security team management thinks this is going to stop their inbound spam problems.
We tried to speak with Verizon but since we are not their customers they would not let us plead our case. Fortunatley we have found a workaround for this problem and was able to send the registration information and support emails to Cocktail users with Verizon email addresses. However, we would like to ask all Verizon customers to call Verizon corporate offices at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in New York and lodge a compliant in Executive Escalations about this idea. Verizon Executive management really needs to re-evaluate their security management and team procedures again.
Related links:
• Top 10 Spam Statistics (Spamhaus)
• Verizon's E-Mail Embargo Enrages (Weird)
• Verizon faces lawsuit over email blocking (The Register)
