> From: Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:24:34 -0700
>
> From what I've read here, I'm not the only person who can't send mail
> to this list -- because mhost says it's coming from a spammer's site.
> (Please don't tell me about the reason or ask me to change ISPs. I
> need EarthLink, for various reasons, and I *have* complained to them.)
> I'm lucky to have a workaround: an account on a system that isn't on
> the blacklist. We all need to discuss nmh, so I'd like to help us.
>
> If you can't send mail to this list, I'd be glad to re-send it for
> you from my alternate system. Just send me the message, ready to go;
> be sure it has your "From:" field in the header. Sending it as a MIME
> attachment (the nmh "forw -mime" command) would be easiest because I
> won't have to do any editing; I can just use "mhstore" to extract it.
> I'll transfer your message to my non-spamming host and send it like:
>
> sendmail -fyour-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] < message-file
>
> so your message header should be preserved. No, I won't censor
> messages, but I'll glance through and try to be sure it's not spam
> ("search engine secrets", etc.).
>
> If anyone has better ideas, please say so. Thanks.
I wonder how many of us were suffering in silence.
Who runs mhost? Can they be convinced to cut back on their filtering?
They're the only site I've had this problem with.
Chris
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