[GTALUG] Spamhaus block

[Don Tai]

You're on a shared host with any number of other web sites and owners. When
one goes rogue and launches bots at the world the IP is logged and is used
to ban all the sites on that IP, which might include your own. Bots
reappear on a regular basis, using the same IP, so bans, in general, are
for life.

Spamhaus probably works on multiple complaint submissions, so it is not
just a couple that will get you on the list.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 17:53, Stewart Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 15:53 Marc Lijour, <marclijour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> turns out that OVH is cheap and not-for-profit organizations are looking
>> for cheap (same as spammers I guess), ...
>>
> We're not looking for cheap at all. A site hosted by WPEngine isn't cheap.
> It's the arbitrariness of spam blocking: we did _nothing_ wrong, we have no
> link to any spammer or blacklist, yet the anti-spam crowd held our business
> up.
>
> I'm really surprised they haven't been sued into oblivion under tort laws.
>
>  Stewart
>
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