Kai Schaetzl wrote: > M.roth at 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. mark