On 4 May 2002, at 2:53, Tobias Giesen wrote: > David Fenton: > > > No, you need to complain to kundenserver.de > > and tell them to close the open mail relay > > that has allowed spammers to hijack their mail server. > > I don't know that this is the reason. It could also be actual customers > of kundenserver.de abusing their legal email account.
Well, an ISP generally doesn't get blackholed for that until there is a huge amount of spam originating from their domains. > > Providers sometimes mistakenly get on the black hole > > lists, but if they stay on them for any length of > > time, then you should probably seek a new ISP. > > I don't think that that's called for yet. Huge trouble that would be, > considering the 20 or so email accounts on 5 domains that I am managing. > Besides, this is the first time that I have heard of anyone having > trouble contacting me. > > Do you really believe that an ISP has any chance of being removed from a > blacklist? In a real world blacklist, once you're on it, you're always > staying on it. Nope, not true. That's not how it works. My ISP got put on one once, and they just had to fix the vulnerability and then let the black list know so they could re-test. You are right, though, that it depends on the blacklist, though I don't know of any reputable ones that do anything other than blacklist for open relays. The key is the bounce message that the individual is getting. It will have information about which blacklist is involved and who your ISP should contact to get removed from the blacklist. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
