Brad Knowles says:<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.007.htp>.
Thanks muchly - that was pretty much it.
Glad I could help!
By the way - Brad. I would've sent this to you directly, but your ISP is blocking my email. Please see:
http://getdave.com/skynet.txt
According to the IP address listed (63.204.157.4), you're a PacBell/SBC ADSL customer, and many blacklists for dynamic IP addresses will include all known ADSL customers. See <http://www.moensted.dk/spam/?addr=63.204.157.4&Submit=Submit>.
Given the extremely high frequency of zombies and open proxies on ADSL lines, I'm surprised that you're not having much worse problems getting your e-mail rejected or silently thrown away.
If possible, I'd encourage you to try to get a static IP address assigned to you by PacBell/SBC that is not in this same block. Alternatively, you may want to try to route your outbound mail through their server, or find an alternative mail services provider that will allow you to route outbound e-mail through them.
If you want to go with a co-location provider (as opposed to virtual hosting, or other services-only offerings), you may be interested in the list at <http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/>.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Skynet, they're pretty clueless. Everyone with a clue left when Skynet was re-absorbed back into the parent company Belgacom (the former PTT for Belgium, and still 51% owned by the gov't). One of my former co-workers from Skynet is so disenchanted with the employment situation now that he's getting out of Unix/Internet system administration completely, and I think he said that he's going to go work in Pizza Hut.
Skynet is so clueless that they are in the rfc-ignorant.org black list, because they refuse to accept abuse@ e-mail, and instead try to force everyone to go through a web page. Looks like they've gotten worse and now won't accept any complaints from anyone who is not a customer.
They pretty much deserve whatever they get.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty much stuck using Skynet as my Internet access provider. Belgacom is the only DSL provider allowed by law, and all other ISPs that resell Belgacom DSL service are much worse.
Cablemodem isn't an option, either. When we asked the monopoly cable provider years ago, they said that they were upgrading neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and that our neighborhood wasn't scheduled to be upgraded for several years. They said that they'd call us if/when they ever got around to upgrading the network in this area.
Sigh....
Anyway, if anyone needs another way to get e-mail to me, you can try [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, each of them run their own different sets of blacklists, so you may or may not be able to get through to one or the other, or possibly both.
I am working on getting my own co-location server set up, and once I do that I'll be moving all my traffic and virtual domains directly to that machine, where I will have a lot more control over what black lists are run, etc....
-- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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