Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

Wlink (WorldLink) is one of the reputed ISP (Internet Service Provider) in Nepal. Even I am a regular subscriber of it. Lately one incident occurred. I find it somewhat hilarious and somewhat irresponsible and foolishness behavior of them. This is the age of Internet and everything is going on through the net. You name it and it is there; shopping, business, love, relationship, friendship, entertainment, information, and studies. Day by day, we encounter lots of spam emails in our inbox. Same thing happened to some of the Wlink subscribers. The spam they received was from some of the sites of blogspot. So they reported to the Wlink abuse section. From the next day, their protection against that spam email was blocking the www.blogger.com and blogspot pages so that no one who are subscribing Wlink’s connection would get those emails. It was such a foolish thing to do. It’s like blocking Microsoft for getting spam emails from their hotmail services. I found it so much hilarious, at the same time I was so much pissed of by their foolishness act. I phoned the support and asked them to unblock those sites. Firstly, they said it can’t be done right now, and they asked me to come visit the head office. Well, I didn’t go due to my busy schedules, but I had lots of my friends, who are the subscriber of Wlink, phone them and tell them to unblock the site. Luckily after some days of the blocking, finally may be they realized lots of people are getting affected by the banning, and they unblocked those sites. I think no ISP should practice these sorts of “stupid act.” Lots of my friends who earn from these sites suffered a great deal of loss in those banned days. I think they should find better ways to protect the spam emails rather than to ban the whole site like Wlink’s protection against spam emails.