Paul,
Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 17:10 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
listadmin,
Can you PLEASE, PLEASE find *any* other blacklist than manitu? This asshole's method was ok a dozen years ago; these days, with hosting sites hosting tens or hundreds of thousands of domains, with too many running Windows, and so infected and sending out spam. They then send all mail via one mailhost, with the result that those of us with *no* spam coming out are frequently blocked.
This ain't the first time for me with this jerk, either. A few yearsago, Cogeco in Canada was using him, and on and off for *months* I was blocked from exchanging email with an old friend... because I was mailing from Roadrunner in Chicago (hosting hundreds of thousands of households), until my friend dropped Cogeco.
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Why not run your own mail server ? I use Exim (a Sendmail replacement)
Because I'm not going to pay for colocation, or whatever. This is my personal domain, etc, and I'm paying about $6US for it a month. I'm not running a business, and so don't want to pay $$$ to Verizon for a business line. <snip>
Spam is a USA invention created by someone called Wallace? about 15? years ago. It is now a world-wide pest.
Ah, yes. I think you're thinking of the Green Card Scam, from Cantor and Siegal. Yes, I was on usenet then.... "There's no such thing as community, this is just a marketing opportunity".
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