[mythtv-users] MythTV.org is in SPAM black list!

[Dan Conti]

I highly recommend reading this, and various articles it links to:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1605

The basic story is once your subnet gets added into spews, you can't get it
removed. "All major" isn't really accurate, and people on those ISPs should
tell their ISP to switch to a different blacklist service.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Ray Olszewski
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:23 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV.org is in SPAM black list!
>
>
> (Initially sent this reply to myth-dev by mistake. Sorry, Isaac; please
> feel free to kill that posting.)
>
> At 11:20 AM 8/14/2003 +0200, Chen Bekor wrote:
> >The mythtv.org mailing list servers (66.111.39.130 and
> 66.111.39.136) are
> >included in a global SPAM Prevention early warnning systems (go to
> >www.spews.org - on the home page enter this IPs in the lookup
> record form
> >and you will find them in the black list!)
> >
> >As a result all major ISPs block any email comming from mythtv.org.
>
> Is this ("all major") true? Or is SPEWS just another wannabe SPAM blocker
> that will fail by overreaching, much the way ORBS self-destructed some
> years back?
>
> Who really uses SPEWS? As distinct from a more level-headed source like
> RTBH, which (last time I checked, anyway) didn't block entire ISP address
> blocks?
>
> >I have contacted my ISP 2 weeks ago but its not in their hands
>
> Sure it is. Your ISP *chose* to use SPEWS. If in doing so it blocks
> legitimate e-mail traffic, you as a customer should object. If enough
> customers do, your ISP will change its practice.
>
> >  - Isaac, can you help?
> >
> >Any body else out there with the same problem?
>
> How would an e-mail sent through this list reach such people? (For that
> matter, how are you receiving it?)
>
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