Re: (ET) antispammer's

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 23 Jun 2006 at 17:46, Neil Dennis wrote:

> I had a message blocked to electrak, the blocker was an outfit called 
> "sorbs" that I've run into before, they really clobbered Yahoo for a 
> while.

SORBS is a spam blacklist, one of many.

Normally if your messages are returned as undeliverable because your IP 
address is on a blacklist, it means that your ISP or hosting provider (in 
the case of a hosted email server) has been hosting a spam source - most 
likely without knowing it (though there are a few spam-friendly ISPs).  
Usually a note to the ISP's sysadmin will take care of things.  He or she 
will enforce the AUP, deleting the spammer's account (if that hasn't been 
done already) and then request that the blacklist remove its record.  All 
this is SOP in such cases.

It's something of a nuisance - I've had to deal with it myself when my 
virtual hosting provider managed to get a spammer using its servers - but 
with the volume of spam that afflicts most users and ISPs, blacklists are 
one of the few reasonably effective ways to fight back.  

Anyway, if you're finding yourself blocked from mailing lists (and other 
recipients) the answer is to contact your email provider's support staff 
to 
get the spammers dealt with, and get unblocked.  However, with something 
as 
huge as gmail, you probably won't have to.  Most likely some other user(s) 
will do it for you.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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