Vietnam net provider struggles to get E-Mail through
HANOI - The Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), part of state-owned telephone company Vietnam Posts &
Telecommunications, is fighting to keep Vietnam Internet users in contact with their international counterparts.
VDC, which controls Internet access from Vietnam, recently found its Internet users were having increasing difficulty sending
and receiving e-mail from overseas. The company said the problem was mostly affecting subscribers of ISP NetNam.
According to VDC, the first problem with NetNam was that its domain name had not yet been "officially re-registered in
Vietnam.
But the company says that the problem is compounded and widened by .vn addresses being rejected from foreign mail servers
on suspicion of spamming (sending mass unsolicited commercial e-mail).
VDC describes the problem as "caused by foreign servers deleting .vn domain names when confusing them with spam
addresses."
Last week it was trying to negotiate with overseas Internet network operators to remove blocks.
By Adam Creed - Newsbytes - August 24, 2000.
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