[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft postings blocked by sorbs etc as SPAM

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Hi Dave,

It is probably not anything directly related to your email content. Qth.net, 
like many major ISPs, uses several methods to prevent their system's overload by 
floods of spam. One method is to use the blacklists hosted at 
http://www.us.sorbs.net/  (See this page for more details.)

Your ISP's mail server, the same one you use to send email, may have another 
user whose computer is infected by a SPAM sending virus and is in turn flooding 
the net with SPAM emails. When this happens the sorbs server temporarily 
blacklists your email server's address so everyone can block the SPAM before it 
overloads their main mail systems. Unfortunately this also blocks all legitimate 
emails sent via that send mail SMTP server. Fortunately your ISP is usually very 
  motivated to find the offending party so their server can become un-blocked. 
Typically these blocks are lifted after a day or two.

So check to see if you can send after waiting a day or more. If it is still 
blocked, feel free to email us at: elecraft-owner at mailman.qth.net and we will 
repost for you while this gets sorted out.

73, Eric  WA6HHQ
Elecraft List Moderator


Dave Sublette wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> I don't seem to be able to post to the Elecraft list. I have been having 
> trouble for about a week.  One reject I recieved from when I was on the 
> road at the Opryland  Hotel said something about being identified as a 
> source of Spam....I don't spam. Is there something wrong with my 
> subscription status?
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Dave Sublette, K4TO
> 
>