Greetings,
I came across a weird situation late last week. I tried to reply to a
post
via the web interface and our netnanny software blocked it. I E-Mailed
our
security folks to ask why and they said they got an updated blacklist
that
classifies bama.ua.edu under the category of Alcohol. I
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Kopischke, David G.
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Website Blacklists
Greetings,
I came across a weird situation late last week. I tried to reply to a
post
via the web interface and our netnanny software blocked it. I
Spamming can cause this. Once, a long time ago, a customer was unable to
receive any email from me. We found out that their site was automatically
blocking all email from IBM because they said they had been spammed from
our domain. I don't know if there had really been an infected machine
I don't know if there had really been an infected machine inside IBM, or if
somebody outside had just successfully spoofed the
sending domain.
This is one of the problems with automated solutions!
A site as reputable as IBM should not have been blocked.
There MUST be some human over-sight.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:28:58 -0700, Roger Bolan rbo...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Spamming can cause this. Once, a long time ago, a customer was unable to
receive any email from me. We found out that their site was automatically
blocking all email from IBM because they said they had been spammed from
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