Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

[Michael Loftis <mloftis () wgops com>]

--On September 26, 2005 8:59:31 AM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
<ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:

> On 25/09/05, Michael Loftis <mloftis () wgops com> wrote:
> > result in me having to call postmaster to get them to remove it.  Also
> > just one hacked webform usually results in the same problem (we have
> > thousands of web hosting customers).  It's in our projects list to find
> > 'some way' to rate limit individual senders but it's not a high priority
> > right now.
>
> One hacked webform can pump out as much spam in a few hours as the
> rest of your users would send email to AOL in a week.

I realise this, but that's usually not the case.  Almost without fail we 
notice and shut it down long before aol starts blocking, and clear out the 
queues of anything pending from the spammer.  then hours or a day later AOL 
blocks us for something that's been dealt with. :/