Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["christian stalberg" <cstalberg AT web-analysts.net>]

Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP 
service to its broadband customers effective August 29, 2009. For those of 
us who live in rural areas, Verizon Wireless broadband service is the only 
ISP service available. To lose SMTP service - which is primary to ISP 
service - will cause me and others in rural areas irrepairable harm. The 
Verizon announcement can be viewed at

http://support.vzw.com/information/smtp_shutdown.html

This is an extreme hardship for me as I use email clients on my personal 
computer to manage my email. Web mail SMTP service is not an option. I have 
several domain names that I use for my email addresses to conduct various 
business and webmail is known to not easily support use of multiple domain 
names in its addressing.

Please contact your state telecommunications authority and Verizon Wireless 
regarding this matter. Thank you.