[CINLUG] Overzealous spam blocklists

[Matt Jonkman]

Colocated.  :)

Question for Michael: What blocklist was it you were listed on?

I admin a service that does filtering and am very confident in the rbl's 
we use, wanted to make sure I wasn't using the one causing you issues. :)

Matt

Scott Woodall wrote:
> What's a "colo'd" box?
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:24:14 -0500, Michael Schultheiss
> <schultmc at cinlug.org> wrote:
> 
>>I'm all for reducing spam but when the spam fighting techniques add an
>>unecessary burden on legitimate communication, they've gone to far.
>>
>>I e-mailed webmaster at linux.org to get CINLUG added to
>>http://www.linux.org/groups/usa/indiana.html and received a bounce
>>message saying my message was blocked by their dialup DNS blocklist.  At
>>first I didn't think much of it (thinking maybe they detected my Comcast
>>cable modem IP, although that would be odd since I relay through my
>>colo'd box) and resent my message from my colo'd box.  The message
>>bounced again and I noticed their blocklist erroneously listed my colo
>>IP as a dialup.  I had to send the message to a specially formated
>>address to bypass their misconfigured blocklist.
>>
>>Anyway, I'll quit ranting for now.  If we ever do another presentation
>>about spam, I'll be sure to include something about overzealous spam
>>fighting techniques.
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