On May 20, 2005 11:24, Curtis Rempel wrote: > On Friday 20 May 2005 10:19, Nick W wrote: > > I attempted to email you through my MX which is on a Shaw business > > package. I got: > > > > The Postfix program > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail.zoneedit.com[209.152.174.160] said: > > 554 Service unavailable; Client host [68.147.28.194] blocked using > > l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net; ! [1] shawcable, see > > http://spews.org/ask.cgi?S3163 (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > > > If you go to the URL you find out they've blocked every Shaw IP, even the > > static ones. Worse, there's no way to request to be un-blocked, even > > though I have SASL running on my MX, so it's unlikely it's being used for > > SPAM. [Plus it would show up in the logs and the LAN activity would tip > > me off, the box isn't all that busy.] > > > > So, Shaw is dumb for not blocking port 25, and SPEWS has a system that > > screws me over, telling me to either switch ISPs or get Shaw to block > > port 25. That's equally stupid. Alternatively, I could remove all the > > spam bots from every idiots windows box in western canada.... > > > > Nick > > Interesting - a royal pain for sure. I wonder how many complaints Shaw > gets about this? I see that according to > http://spews.org/html/S3163.html they say: > > <quote> > Spam ignorant. > > Poster child of how not to run a broadband network company > when it comes to dealing with abuse. > </quote>
if you check the top of the list, you see that even the mail server is on that list, so blocking port 25 on that one would likely bring customer service down very fast. > > Certainly Shaw could block 25 as does Telus. I suppose I could update my > zoneedit entry and set up a SASL MX server instead of forwarding through > zoneedit, but, alas, the clock ticks forward with other projects... :-) > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
