IP: The age of new blacklisting is upon us (not related to homeland defense)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Janos G." <janos451 () earthlink net>
> To: "jg" <janos451 () earthlink net>
>
>
> [Increasingly, the fight against spam is resulting in automatic blocks
> against innocent parties. Here's a message from a system administrator
> explaining what happens - sooner or later, either as a blocker or a blockee,
> *you* too will experience it. Sigh.]
>
> We are increasingly having a problem with outgoing email being rejected
> by the receiver's domain (eg. see below).
>
> This is happening because our mail server has been blacklisted by
> certain spam-monitoring organizations. We are on these lists because the
> server is configured (by necessity, for now) in a way that a malicious
> person could use it to relay spam.
>
> Sysadmins at certain domains are starting to use these lists (eg.
> http://ordb.org/, http://orbz.org) to filter incoming email. Messages,
> spam or not, from hosts on the list is summarily bounced. To me, this is
> a rash and stupid action on their end, but there's nothing I can do
> about it.
>
> The solution is for us to get off these lists by securing our server.
> Changes on our side will be forthcoming in the next month which will
> address the problem. These will likely require you to make some changes
> in the configuration of your mail reader. Watch for future instructions.
>
> For now, it may be necessary to use an alternate email account when
> mailing certain outsiders. We apologize for the inconvenience.
>
> Eliot
>
> >
> > lspoon () selectica com on Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:33:59 -0800
> >     Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure
> > The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a=
> > ;p=the451;l=SFPDC0201302333D12ZNKKP
> >     MSEXCH:IMS:the451:CADOMAIN:SFPDC 3550 (000B099C) 550 5.7.1 from
> > 207.211.190.66 refused by blackhole site inputs.orbz.org
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Janos Gereben/SF
> janos451 () earthlink net

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