>>>>> "Denis" == Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> writes:
Denis> A friend uses Inmotionhosting.com and finds that Comcast is rejecting Denis> all mail from this host claiming high incidence of spam from Inmotion. Denis> Anybody here have information about this? Is Comcast just trying Denis> harass the small hosting outfits, or is there some substance to their Denis> complaint? He is contemplating dropping Comcast. Do you have the IP addresses that Inmotionhosting.com sends from? I can look those up on the spam reporting services and give you a definite answer. My suspicion is that if comcast is saying it's often a spam source, it'll also show up in the reporting services, which others are using as well. And the only solution at that point is to stop using that hosting service if they have a spammer-friendly attitude or are understaffed in responding to spam complaints. [Moments later] Taking a quick google search, I think the problem is that they don't choke outbound port 25 through a central spam-checking service. So anyone can rent a host, start spewing spam, and not get shut off until the complaints are significant. If that's the case, I don't have much hope for this kind of service... it's likely to continue to have a "dirty" reputation. If you want to continue hosting there, get them to divert outbound 25 to an internal relay to throttle and discard spam. If they are unwilling to do that, change hosting, because that would make them spam-hosting friendly, triggering spam alerts from time to time. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
