RE: tacid.org

[Nick Shank <nick () laststop net>]

After doing a bit of digging, it doesn't appear the any of the tacid.org ip-space is blacklisted (one less battle I 
have to fight). Fortune 100? Nope. Just a small non-profit org in Tacoma, WA, that got their exchange box rooted. I'm 
still trying to figure out the full extent of the damage done, but this point, I believe 99.7% of the outbound mail is 
legit. In-bound is another story entirely, but that's my own private hell to deal with.
 Thanks all for the input
~Nick

-----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Bulk - iNAME <frnkblk () iname com>
> Sent: Jul 5, 2008 1:21 PM
> To: 'Nick Shank' <nick () laststop net>, nanog () nanog org
> Subject: RE: tacid.org
>
> Nick:
>
> Leaving a domain and IP fallow for such a long time will end up looking like
> my garden did this year when I did the same thing -- overrun with weeds.
>
> Sending a blanket e-mail to NANOG is not going to get the attention of those
> who manage the e-mail flow (unless you domain belonged to a Fortune 100).
>
> Just like I should have with my garden, rather than replant among the weed
> seeds and spend 99% of my time pulling weeds, I would recommend sowing a new
> field by moving your outbound e-mail server(s) to some fresh address space
> (different /24 to be sure, ideally another section of SWIPed space) and
> start monitoring your outgoing servers logs.  You'll need to work with each
> MTA that blocks your e-mail and ask them to delist you from whatever block
> (domain or domain reputation) that they have.  At the same time,
> systematically go to every RBL that tracks by domain name and check the
> status of your domain and request delisting as necessary.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Shank [mailto:nick () laststop net] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:51 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: tacid.org
>
> Greetings,
> My name is Nick, and I have inherited admin duties for tacid.org. For an
> un-known amount of time (A month or more?) mail.tacid.org has been an
> open-relay, and sending out large amounts of spam. This should now be fixed.
> If anyone is having issues with this domain still, please contact me off
> list.
> Thank you,
> Nick