Kai Schaetzl wrote:
M.roth@5-cent.us wrote on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:46:22 -0400:
I'm sorry, nobody seems to get what I've been saying: I haven't been on roadrunner for two years. I'm sending this email via bluehost, my current hosting provider.
Ok, so you use Bluehost and one of their mailservers got on the list because spam was sent over it. Is that correct? There is an easy solution for them: they can ask Nixspam to be put on the whitelist or they can spamscan their outgoing SMTP (many hosting providers do that). Complain to them.
Assuming I can get someone who is *willing* to bump it up to tier 2 or 3 support, who *might* be able to do something about it.
And I will do that. However, manitu has been a problem a number of times.
Again, I haven't been with rr for two years. My current hosting provider, Bluehosts, is is telling me that I was banned.
*You* were "banned" or one of *their* mail servers got "banned"?
It appears that mail coming from their mailhost's IP was banned.
Also, again, it isn't just me. What was it, earlier this year? late last year? one or two other folks were complaining, when they could *finally* post again, that they'd been banned.
You got blocked this single one time in two years and you already complain?
No. I've been blocked for a period ranging from hours to several days, and kept getting myself unbanned, a number of times in the last couple of years. And once or twice, the same time I was having this problem, there were one or two others who, once they got unbanned, complained of the same problem. <snip>
Is it really the first time that you hear about the concept of RBLs? They have been around for years and have proven to be one of the most effective ways to combat spam, still.
No, and I've always disagreed with the way they do it.
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