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Ordinarily I wouldn't copy this reply to the list, but I don't
want to leave certain errors without a response.
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:37:11AM -0500, Mark Brown wrote:
> No what has happened I think is that last Saturday the Admin of
> Eskimo.com thought it wise to block thousands upon thousands of IP
> address by blocking just that entire IP blocks.
Eskimo has not changed its configuration recently. They do block
connections to its mail servers from client-side broadband IP
addresses, as do most responsible ISPs. What this means in layman's
terms is that you can't connect your home (or office) computer's
email client directly to eskimo's mail server---you instead must
route your outgoing mail through your ISP's relay server, Most of you
do this transparently as part of whatever you did when you set up
your email account with your ISP.
What "changed" last Saturday is that for some reason Mark tried to
make such a connection, and received the standard denial SMTP notice.
> Mr. Admin Eskimo.com got spammed by someone in my area "a really big
> area" so he decided to block and entire region of the country.
The block was not in response to any specific spam; it's standard
practice to block client-side connections. To allow such connections
would be an invitation to spammers, so they're generally blocked
preemptively.
> So until someone can reason with Eskimo.com to white list my STATIC
> IP's all kinds of weirdness can be expected.
Eskimo DID whitelist your IP; I was copied on several emails from the
owner to you explaining that he had, in fact, put you on the
whitelist. I know you received those emails, because you quoted them
in subsequent invective directed back at Eskimo. He certainly cut
you more slack than I would have after your flood of abusive language.
Jim
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