rogers cabal and blacklisting

[Justin Zygmont]

you should still be able to use it for an email server, I am right now.


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Tom Wright wrote:

> 
> So all of a sudden I find my emails bouncing. A little investigation and 
> it appears that SORBS identifies my IP as a dynamic one (quite right it 
> is, although it hasnt changed fro at least 3 months) so is red flagging 
> (or black holing) all emails sent from my server. Now I use the SORBS 
> blacklists in my configuration and they have been a great help in cutting 
> down spam but why are they so anti dynamic ip's? I've checked carefully 
> and its not like my machine is an open relay.
> In addition reading the SOBS policy on dynamic ip's it seems likely that 
> rogers has entered it's own dynamic ip address ranges into the SORBS 
> database. This is a sneaky and underhand way of stopping me from running 
> my own mail server. I would like to point out to rogers I was actually 
> saving them processor cycles and thus money by handling my own email.
> Now it seems that I need to relay all my email through the rogers servers 
> which if i remember correctly (must admit i havent checked this recently) 
> not only require smtp authentication (irritating since one of my clients 
> dosnt support it) but also require me to use a rogers.com addy as the from 
> address.
> 
> So who should I be pissed at here?
> Rogers - for making my life difficult
> SORBS - for being a little over eager
> Myself - for trying to get clever
> 
> nyway enuff said time to find a solution
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