Dear Ryan,
As everybody knows SPAM email is becoming a larger problem everyday. It is
become so large of a problem that we are now working on blocking spam
automatically server wide. Over the last two months emails incoming to the
server you are on (titan) has doubled. Over that last 24 hours over
30,000 emails came in. That's almost 1 million a month, anThey d using industry
standards 65-70% of those emails are unwanted SPAM. This is causing
tremendous load on the servers and needs to be repaired.
So, effective today the server you are on will be filtering all incoming
email using 4 public IP blacklists:
bl.spamcop.net
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
relays.ordb.org
list.dsbl.org
The way that these blacklists work is they follow user spam complaints. When a user reports to them a mass email sender (spam) they investigate the issue and then put the ip of the sender on the blocklist. The server then verifies the ip of it all incoming mail against the ips that are on the blacklist - If they are not on the blacklist the email goes through, if it is then the mail bounces. 99.9% of legitimate email senders will not get on those blacklists, butspammers will be stopped. Any spam mail that is found on the blacklists will automatically bounce, and will not reach your inbox.
Hopefully you will appreciate this effort, but you may also not like your
email being filtered. I apologize about that, but 99% of people want fewer
spam emails and we have to support those 99%. We do not expect 100% of spam to be stopped, but the amount that you receive will be substancially decreased.
In order to bring you the best possible hosting experience with Telnap
Internet Services, this policy is firm and here to stay. All email will be
scanned through the previously listed blacklists until further notice.
Thank you for choosing Telnap for your hosting needs, and your feedback is
appreciated.
Best regards,
Eric Kofman
