Dumb spam blocking system (was: RE: [Boatanchors] Mail System Error - Returned Mail)

[Vic K2VCO]

Brian Goldsmith wrote:

> **** Hello Glen and the list,I know what this reflector is about as I have
> been a subscriber for several years,what I don't understand is why the >
> 
>  http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?144.140.83.195 
> 
> system has suddendly thrown me off?
> 
> **** Have a look at this lot of crap (er sorry,garbage):-
> 
> http://www.au.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/db

Oh boy, don't get me started!  I have a customer in Perth (I'm in the 
software business) who asked me a technical question about our product. 
  Unfortunately, my answer kept getting black-holed by one of these 
bloody spam blockers.  The guy is getting frustrated, I know how to fix 
his problem, and I can't talk to him!

Instead, I get to read a bunch of half intelligible techno-snob bulls--t 
about how this is all MY fault for "not securing my servers", etc.   At 
that time my ISP was Earthlink which was the third largest in the US, 
and these space cadets have decided that it is a spam source and should 
not be allowed to send email to Australia...

Ultimately I got through to someone at my customer's ISP and explained 
to him that his user was paying him to provide communication and this 
particular spam-blocking service wasn't helping his customer relations. 
  They removed the particular server from the blacklist, and I was able 
to talk to my guy again.

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco