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Rec'd something from Kohn law firm stating my emails might have been blocked between 2004-2005. I'm one pissed Verizon user right now.

Aggrieved Verizon customers are invited to join a class action that seeks damages arising from the US ISP's enthusiastic email filtering policies. Philadelphia law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. filed suit this week against Verizon on behalf of a DSL subscriber in a civil case that seeks class action status.

Since 22 December, mail servers at verizon.net have been configured to reject connections from Europe and other parts of the world including China and New Zealand by default, according to Reg readers and industry sources such as MessageLabs. Verizon says the move is designed to reduce spam and says it is following industry best practice and applying blacklists as "narrowly" as possible.

Domains can be unblocked on request but Verizon's catch-all filtering has generated fierce criticism, reflected in letters from Reg readers in response to our report last week on the e-blockade.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/verizon_class_action/

Edited to Add: Does not pass smell test. I think they have been part of evesdropping for varient of reasons, some seen and heard as does many in my state. But, what I rec'd in the mail was *not* from above law firm but another. After checking them out, it was another not in Phil. PA and after reading their bio it seemed odd.