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With all due respect, I've had exactly the same problem in the past... with
my domain (and server) blocked as part of a wider road block.
It would occur approximately twice per year, with a lot of email back and
forth to fix things. (And with an attitude of "You're guilty until proven
innocent.")
It has not happened for quite some time now, so perhaps I was whitelisted,
but the frustration level was quite high for a while there.
Best regards,
Gene Pope
----- Original Message -----
From: "List Maintainer" <jimo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mark Brown" <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Your "status" with eskimo.com
> 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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