On Wed February 22 2006 15:28, Matt Nuzum wrote: > > Well, one mistake I made when deciding on a data center was to failing > to see if their service is used by spammers. When I signed up with > "Neutelligent" in the Tampa Bay are of Florida, USA I didn't check > this. At the time our servers were installed, several IP blocks were > black listed and our users could not send e-mail to some domains (such > as AOL). Fortunately, they had already enacted a policy to get abusers > off of their network and after a few months the IP Blocks were removed > from the DNSbl. > > Anytime I consider a host in the future, I'm going to ask what their > policy on spammers is and check the dns black lists to see if they're > listed. >
I wrote a tool for that purpose (among others), see: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamviz/ Requires that your system have bash and dig installed. GraphViz is optional. Mike _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
