Re: Not a representative of gmx.com but their emails are being blocked by those who subscribe to the SORBS RBL.

2016-12-19 Thread David Hofstee
Sorbs is a pretty good list. And I've been on the listed-side too. I personally would not use it to block, but I would give it 3 of the 5 points. The anti-spam gang is never going to be perfect. But since (self)regulation is not working, we need them. I value them at the moment. The only

Re: Not a representative of gmx.com but their emails are being blocked by those who subscribe to the SORBS RBL.

2016-12-18 Thread Tom Beecher
I tend to scratch my head at anyone still using SORBS at this point. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:27 AM Ken O'Driscoll wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 20:15 -0800, Large Hadron Collider wrote: > > > Does anyone have information on why this is, and if you represent SORBS > &

Re: Not a representative of gmx.com but their emails are being blocked by those who subscribe to the SORBS RBL.

2016-12-18 Thread Ken O'Driscoll
On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 20:15 -0800, Large Hadron Collider wrote: > Does anyone have information on why this is, and if you represent SORBS  > and/or GMX and/or both, would you please trouble yourself with  > contacting me off-list? You can find out why an IP was listed via their lookup

Not a representative of gmx.com but their emails are being blocked by those who subscribe to the SORBS RBL.

2016-12-17 Thread Large Hadron Collider
Does anyone have information on why this is, and if you represent SORBS and/or GMX and/or both, would you please trouble yourself with contacting me off-list?

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-27 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, Yeah - funny…it's been years since I heard of specific Estonian issues (and caveat - I am estonian and know Tarko). Back in 2007 there were plenty of problems but many have been cleaned up. Some took a few years. Still waiting for examples. I can say for sure that none of the major o

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-27 Thread Merike Kaeo
On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Tarko Tikan wrote: > hey, > >> My home IP is in both the PBL and the SORBS DUL and I have no trouble >> using ebay or paypal. > > Thanks for confirmation. > >> Given that the problem range is in Estonia, I expect that it's

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-21 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, My home IP is in both the PBL and the SORBS DUL and I have no trouble using ebay or paypal. Thanks for confirmation. Given that the problem range is in Estonia, I expect that it's some combination of abuse from the specific range and general issues with traffic from Estonia.

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-21 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, Can you share the data that makes you think it's the former? I can't say I'm absolutely sure, hence the question to wider audience. But I can say that it's only subset of prefixes that are blocked What I can do, is provide some blocked IPs as example: 90.190.226.239 90.191.156.199 84.5

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-21 Thread John Levine
>That seems really unlikely. If they were blocking access purely due to it >being from dynamically assigned ranges, >someone else would have noticed. My home IP is in both the PBL and the SORBS DUL and I have no trouble using ebay or paypal. Given that the problem range is in Estonia,

Re: Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-21 Thread Steve Atkins
On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:23 AM, Tarko Tikan wrote: > hey, > > For a while now, we have been getting complains from our broadband customers > about not being able to reach ebay.com/paypal.com > > We have nailed it down to some small prefixes and they are all listed in >

Ebay/Paypal blocking HTTP access based on SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL

2014-08-21 Thread Tarko Tikan
hey, For a while now, we have been getting complains from our broadband customers about not being able to reach ebay.com/paypal.com We have nailed it down to some small prefixes and they are all listed in SORBS DUHL / Spamhaus PBL and have been listed for ages. These are indeed dynamic IP

Re: SORBS email

2013-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
On October 21, 2013 at 08:58 r.engehau...@gmail.com (Roy) wrote: > I sent an email to SORBS some time ago and I received this yesterday > > Reason: unable to deliver this message after 135 days > > Got to admit that SORBS email servers aren't timely but they are

SORBS email

2013-10-21 Thread Roy
I sent an email to SORBS some time ago and I received this yesterday Reason: unable to deliver this message after 135 days Got to admit that SORBS email servers aren't timely but they are persistent.

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread John Levine
>> Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting >> any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. > >Do they return a canned answer that says "don't block", or do you get >to wait for a DNS timeout? Is there some reason you're asking random people rather than spe

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread Randy Bush
i have not tested to see who catches what. not really into spam research. just trying to reduce it for a server. randy

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-14 Thread John R. Levine
dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? yes, i have an arrangement I used to pay (not very much) but realized several years ago that after using the Spamhaus lists, MAPS didn't catch any

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On 13 Apr 2012 22:01:14 -, "John Levine" said: > > dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ > > : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ > > Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting > any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. Do

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-13 Thread Randy Bush
>> dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ >> : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ > > Are you paying Trend for access to these? yes, i have an arrangement randy

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-13 Thread John Levine
> dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \ > : rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org \ Are you paying Trend for access to these? If not, you're not getting any answers from them and they're not blocking anything. R's, John

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Randy Bush wrote: dropcondition = ${if isip4{$sender_host_address}} message = blocked because $sender_host_address is \ in blacklist at $dnslist_domain: $dnslist_text !dnslists = list.dnswl.org dnslists

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Randy Bush
dropcondition = ${if isip4{$sender_host_address}} message = blocked because $sender_host_address is \ in blacklist at $dnslist_domain: $dnslist_text !dnslists = list.dnswl.org dnslists = dialups.mail-abuse.org \

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Blake Dunlap
Generally when faced with SORBS related blocking, I have found it far more effective to contact the receiving side and show them the ample Google history about SORBS and the effect it has on their ability to receive email their customers/employees have requested, and have them either change their

RE: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Our ARIN allocation is: > > 67.217.144.0/20 > > and SORBS had us listed within a larger black listed range, like the > containing /12. It took us weeks to be removed from that range (or to > have > an exception added). This was probably a couple of years ago, or e

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Dan White
On 04/09/12 09:50 -0700, Brian Keefer wrote: On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I actually thought they would dump the SORBS name because of bad karma

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 7, 2012, at 19:41 , TR Shaw wrote: > As for Yahoo, the problem will probably go away on its own over time. The > problem with companies that are in questionable/bad financial shape is that > they defund many activities that do not seem important but actually are. > These, such as abuse h

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Brian Keefer wrote: > > > On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: > > > > As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long > > time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would > > change (I

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-09 Thread Brian Keefer
On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:41 PM, TR Shaw wrote: > > As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I > thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I actually thought > they would dump the SORBS name because of bad karma) but it hasn't

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread TR Shaw
it either. Its a real shame that the original high quality search engine/company that everyone aspired to be on has fallen so far both financially and in quality. As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Barry Shein
Something I'm considering is just limiting the max size of an email from Yahoo severely, enough to say "I've changed my address from yahoo to ___". We get pounded day and night with multimegabyte (per each) spam emails from them. Yahoo isn't the only one but the most frequent. -- -

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 08:33:10PM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Clearly, this is idiotic reasoning and only when others start > blocking their IP ranges and DNS servers will they ever wake up. But how idiotic is it? Do you have all Yahoo IP space and

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I recently had a similar run-in with another ISP unrelated to Yahoo. It involved a phishing site on one of their customers. Countless emails to their abuse@ email went unanswered. Then one day I bumped into their VP who was trying to sell me somethin

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-07 Thread Rich Kulawiec
Yahoo's "personnel" have long since demonstrated that (a) they couldn't possibly care less about the spam, phishing, and other forms of abuse that they're emanating, supporting or hosting on a systemic and chronic basis (b) they are incapable of recognizing their own users, hosts, and networks eve

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-07 Thread Randy Bush
> i dont think anyone would miss sorbs if it was gone, dare i say it not > even a single person while i would not dispute what you think you think, i think you are thinking quite incorrectly randy

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Mark Foster
s that the senders MSP wind up carrying a lot of the cost; they have to find an out-of-band method of engaging the receiving MSP, advising them of the predicament, and justifying some sort of exception; they also obviously have to be seen to try to get off the RBL (and we've seen how hard SORB

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > Yahoo is only a hegemony among spam havens, not a monopoly.  There's still > freelance havens out there, and they'll go away when SORBS does. Sorbs did have a decent set of traps - and did catch a lot of spam. The problem was atrociously

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:48:44 -0500, Jimmy Hess said: > That's kind of vague to say it's "unlikely to see 1 abuser". What is > the probability that > more IPs in the same /24 are likely to harbor abusers, given that you have > received abuse from one IP? It's similar to pirhanas or cockroaches

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
o mail On Friday, April 6, 2012, goe...@anime.net wrote: The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away is the day BS like this stops happening: - The following addresses had permanent fa

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
d due to spam content) Right - that one is doing stupid stuff like filtering out spam reports sent to abuse@ because they contain spam all by itself, without Yahoo's assistance. Yahoo is only a hegemony among spam havens, not a monopoly. There's still freelance havens out there, and th

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread chris
i dont think anyone would miss sorbs if it was gone, dare i say it not even a single person On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > Brielle Bruns wrote: > > to come from such a block is more often than not a

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Brielle Bruns wrote: > to come from such a block is more often than not a necessity. It's very > unlikely to see 1 abuser in between an otherwise perfectly behaving network > neighbourhood. That's kind of vague to say it's "unlikely to see

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose abuse you're trying to mail On Friday, April 6, 2012, goe...@anime.net wrote: > The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning > properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. > > The da

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brielle Bruns wrote: Unfortunately, the apathy of providers, backbones, and network operators in general have created an environment that the almighty buck rules everything. I totally agree with pretty much everything in this email. I also agree that blocking whole /24 or bigger when spam has

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jimmy Hess wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote: > > If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider > > resulted in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, > > which is after all basically a list of people who don't take action > > whe

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: > > But they will care about a /24. > > I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to > take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? It's a bal

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
der your responsibility and making nice to see that list empty. Pretty simple. Incidentally SORBS usually blocks /24s and, as far as I know, provides no way for you to lookup all listings under a providers responsibility (by AS or otherwise). That's really either not true or an oversimpl

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Ever wonder why it takes time for DNSbl's to process removals, sometimes very long periods? Well, someone's gotta pay for that time the removal person does it (and I have yet to see a dime of compensation for the time I spend). No, they don't.

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: > So you're suggesting that hosting companies do what? I believe I'm suggesting you use SORBS as your canary in the coal mine and otherwise ignore them. But if you're asking what hosting companies could do to proactively pr

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote: > If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider > resulted > in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, which is after > all basically a list of people who don't take action when notified... > [snip] Pot callin

The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away is the day BS like this stops happening: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - (reason: 554 rejected due to spam content

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread David Miller
On 4/6/2012 12:35 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: >> On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: >>> >>> I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, >>> oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some >>> very thre

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
12 12:56 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: > That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something >that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves >than have Senderbase

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
the idea is that you're supposed to proactively monitor your systems for abuse and generally make your network inhospitable to spammers, not just reactively move the customer to a new IP address when the unpaid anti-spammers kindly let you know you've been detected. Personally I see SORBS as

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A wee

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
the point - if it was industry standard practice, reputation lists at Senderbase, Spamhaus, and SORBS would *all 3* be out of business, because the average spammer's lifespan at a provider would be less than the time it takes the average reputation list to put up an entry. pgpyOe35QJ6E1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A week? You may have the right to list them and ch

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
Your attitude is worrying. The "I am not responsible for who uses the blacklist or what that means" isn't good enough anymore. I know he's not the enemy. Hate the idea that he would be. The only reason why I responded the way I did, was because I sit here, watching everyone ta

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2012 08:49 AM, George Herbert wrote: This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and before j...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. You

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread George Herbert
This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and before j...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your attitude is worrying. The "I am not respons

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 9:02 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: No, they don't. Many DNSBLs use self-service tools. Someone has to write the tool, but the rest is automated. Total cost is power& space, which is frequently donated (I have personally donated some myself to DNSBLs I thought were well run). Proxy

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:54 , Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: > >>>> It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life >>>> your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. >>

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: > It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life > your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. > It turns into a customer service issue for most service providers. Eh, guess t

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
06, 2012 9:48 AM To: Drew Weaver Cc: 'goe...@anime.net'; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:31:47 -0400, Drew Weaver said: > That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something > that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it d

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:31:47 -0400, Drew Weaver said: > That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a > reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have > Senderbase set a poor reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. If it was industry-wide stan

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
e.net] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:48 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: 'Sam Oduor'; Chris Conn; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: SORBS?! This is often the only way to get peoples attention and get action. Providers dont care about individual /32's and will let them sit around and spew nig

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread PC
That's probably a better idea. I moved "into" a /24 ip block that was SWIPed to me that they reported was "dynamic cable/DSL users" (no spam history, mind you). Didn't matter, I couldn't send e-mail. When trying to get it delisted I had a TTL on the zone that was "incompatible" with their standa

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: > But they will care about a /24. I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? Nick

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Landon Stewart
the listing and gives you a way to remove the listing. Spamhaus encourages companies to resolve all the issues while only blocking /32s by showing all the listings under your responsibility and making nice to see that list empty. Pretty simple. Incidentally SORBS usually blocks /24s and, as far as I k

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread goemon
ailto:sam.od...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:56 AM To: Chris Conn Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from sor

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Drew Weaver
Oduor [mailto:sam.od...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:56 AM To: Chris Conn Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Sam Oduor
Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from sorbs after resolving the problem amicably. Sorbs responded well on time. *Your request appear to have been resolved. If you

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Conn
On 2012-04-04 17:33: Hi, Actually knowing Chris, and his outfit, that 18k request seems unwarranted :( As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/ which use the same username/password as https://www.us.sorbs.net. You can follow up there with your

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 14:27, Alain Hebert wrote: >As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/which > use the same username/password as > https://www.us.sorbs.net. You can follow up there with your ticket #, if > their robot is being a bit too fascist. ( e

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 14:21, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Landon Stewart wrote: > >> I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders >> to get their attention. >> > > Yeah you're free to do that, as well as complain about it and SORBS in >

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Alain Hebert
after dealing with their robot =D ). As for being removed from their SPAM RBL that might be another story.. Actually knowing Chris, and his outfit, that 18k request seems unwarranted :( As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/ which use the same

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Landon Stewart wrote: I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders to get their attention. Yeah you're free to do that, as well as complain about it and SORBS in turn is free to put whatever the hell they feel like on their block lists and not remove it a

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Mike Andrews
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Landon Stewart wrote: > On 4 April 2012 12:53, Chris Conn wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here > > and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 12:53, Chris Conn wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here > and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for a spam > incident from over a year ago. The "last spam" date is 03/05/2011 &g

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Graydon
to "light blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance" territory even mentioning them. There is a good chance you might get a reply from Sorbs here, they almost always seem to respond when things get raised on NANOG. Paul On 04/04/2012 09:53 AM, Chris Conn wrote: Hello, Is anyone fro

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Matt Kelly
Good luck. Last time we heard back from them they were trying to extort us for $18,000 to have a huge block of Ips removed. They were listed from the day we received them from arin. After that we gave up on SORBS. On 4/4/12 3:53 PM, "Chris Conn" wrote: >Hello, > >Is anyo

SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for a spam incident from over a year ago. The "last spam" date is 03/05/2011 according to their lookup tools. We don't have access to th

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:17:02 CDT, trinity.edu's mailer, *not* "Brian R. Watters" said: > Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com > Subject: Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact > Message-Id: <1d95a7a9-8340-45e7-b803-03f1827326e1@brw-abs-office> > Recipient: ge...@trinity

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Brian R. Watters
Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com Subject: Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Message-Id: <1d95a7a9-8340-45e7-b803-03f1827326e1@brw-abs-office> Recipient: ge...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: gerno.rein...@trinity.edu --- Begin Message --- Thanks .. their attempts to reach us are blocked v

Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Brian R. Watters
Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com Subject: Re: SORBS contact Message-Id: <8beae4f1-acd0-4408-9f75-264aff04d788@brw-abs-office> Recipient: ge...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: gerno.rein...@trinity.edu --- Begin Message --- Nope .. just like pain and suffering :( - Original M

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:36:22 EDT, William Herrin said: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:32 PM, wrote: > >That sort of shoots your "If Woody had gone straight to the > >SPF record, none of this would have happened" claim. > > My WHAT claim? What you said: > 2. I assume the subscription request came

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread William Herrin
ding other messages with a null return path. If my speculation is right, the Barracuda is behaving reasonably and SORBS' use of the null return path ignores the SHOULD in an ill considered manner. If your speculation is right, the Barracuda's design bug is exacerbated by SORBS' ill c

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:18:17 EDT, William Herrin said: > 2. I assume the subscription request came from a web page because if > it was from an email request you received then you ignored my SPF > records when generating the confirmation request. That was OK in 2001 > but in 2011 you ought not be d

RE: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
requires 200 recipients for standard mail to classify such mail as 'bulk'[1]. That number seems quite high to me, but then again, 2-10 seems quite low. In the past, I've had a heck of a time getting blocks delisted from SORBs - even getting a PI assignment removed from the

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
ster@ is not in the required list. > As per > my previous email, the webservers (all of them) report another email > > [snip] > > > I wouldn't fault SORBS for not supporting optional addresses such as > webmaster@. > I would fault SORBS for automatically

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Paul Graydon
On 7/30/2011 2:33 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Ken Chase wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: >Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD >existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to a

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
em) report another email [snip] > I wouldn't fault SORBS for not supporting optional addresses such as webmaster@. I would fault SORBS for automatically listing someone e-mailing webmaster@ though, as implied above. Whether the actual RFC existed or not. It's probably true that

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: > > >Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD > >existed so I learnt something today. ;-) > > That's pretty rich. > > You enforce people to adopt standards that are part of propose

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, wrote: > Hint:  If somebody forges a subscription request from 'nosuchu...@herrin.us', > do you want the resulting "Somebody has requested this email address to be > added to the foobar-l list, please click or reply within 48 hours to confirm" > mail to show up w

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:46:13 EDT, William Herrin said: > Point taken. Bounce reports, temporary failure reports and successful > delivery reports. Nevertheless, it still isn't for "other > programmatically generated mail." In fact, the next paragraph in RFC > 5321 4.5.5 says: > > "All other types

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Ken Chase
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: >Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD >existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to adopt standards that are part of proposed RFC's, not official by any s

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
. There's enough sites running Listserv that it might be a bit more impact than "I can't e-mail SORBS"... I have always been amazed at how products like the Barracuda or the PIX can ship with totally broken software, and yet get enough market share to cause so much pain for the

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:48:44 EDT, William Herrin said: >> Correction: It's a standard way to denote that "this mail is a bounce >> report." > > It's *not* just "bounce reports" (in particular, DSNs and MDNs are not > non-delivery (bounce) messages in the

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
satory tickets. Being snarky > back gains little, if anything, and just helps promote a bad > reputation. People forget good customer service (unless it surpasses > that to brilliant), but remember bad service. > You will find that all responses from SORBS support staff to support req

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
, just as "hostmaster" is the standard way to reach > the administrator of the DNS service. So you're both wrong: SORBS, > since it has a web site, should support the "webmaster" address; and > you shouldn't send traffic there unless your enquiry is about

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
e wasn't any mention of webmaster@ - both abuse@ and postmaster@ are valid addresses that go to real people, neither will respond to any type of delisting requests.) FWIW, you get an error on the SORBS website you get the email address to reach the administrators, it is not webmaster@, it'

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Rich Kulawiec
quot;, it's a fairly standard way to reach the > administrator of a service. Per RFC 2142 section 5, it's the standard way to reach the administrator of the HTTP service, just as "hostmaster" is the standard way to reach the administrator of the DNS service. So you'r

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