Re: OT: mail server blocked

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 15:55, Ronald Chmara scribed:
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> > What would be a more friendly blocking message would be an
> > invitation to be on the white list. I've seen a very slowly
> > increasing trend for that. My prognostication talent says this is
> > the wave of the future.
>
> I'm sure most spammers would *love* to be invited onto whitelists! If
> they can automate being added, even better! :-)
>
> Personally, I block with bl.spamcop.net, so it's dynamic based on who
> is sending spam "right now" (or in the last 48 hours).... wanadoo IP's
> show up all the time, but it's not a network-wide-block.
>
> <soapbox>
> Or, even better: get an ISP who's not spam-friendly? I'm frustrated
> that users of spam-friendly ISP's somehow think it's the problem of
> the black/whitelist, or a problem at the recipient's end, since the
> *source* of the problem is at the ISP who thinks nothing of polluting
> the internet with 419 scams, donkey porn, and herbal viagra.
>
> Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again!
> </soapbox>

> Get a good ISP, and never worry about being blacklisted again!

Speaking of getting "good ISP"!

*Too bad* the PostgreSQL folks use the "blackest" of Black Hat ISP's
=> rackspace

ie:

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=rackspace.com

I also use Spamcop's RBL.. but I got so sick of the spew from rackspace I added the following blacklist..
=> rackspace.blackholes.us

guess what... all my PostgreSQL mail lists stopped.. as they are hosted on rackspew... ie:

64.49.215.129
64.49.215.143
64.49.215.8

To keep my postgresql mail coming I did something I almost never do..

64.49.215.129:allow,RBLSMTPD=""
64.49.215.143:allow,RBLSMTPD=""
64.49.215.8:allow,RBLSMTPD=""

ethically doing business with them is wrong and really is contributing
the the overall degradation of the Internet, as they make out like they are
the Holy "Grail" of ISP's.. yet they are nothing more than a place for
scumbag SPAMMER's to do busines.

Please consider finding a new place to host your stuff... as these
people should not have the support of your company.

--

"For my own part, I never trust anything that's closed source.
It's said that the true test of a person's character is what they do when
nobody's looking. Speaking solely for myself, I am not inclined to put
much faith in the character of people I do not know."

Jay D. D.
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