I have to agree with Geoffs and more importantly with his network admin:
That pimple faced, chicken necked, string of puke geek!! I hope he doesn't reopen his site and slips into an irreversible state of depression that lands him in the gutter living as a lowly street person!!
Adding "and die of the complications caused by a combination simultaneous infection of all venereal diseases known to man". 😉
I too have been having very stressful interactions with the "anti-spammers". These idiots think that just because they go out, abuse your email server (test your server) and then report that abuse to SPEWS, SPAMCOP, ORBZ, ORBS, ORBD etc... that they are fighting spam.
Then there are all the clueless email admins out there who blindly tie their systems into the pimply faced blacklist operators in such a way that when one of them fails (who would expect that) their system is compromised!!!
Case in point: my mail server is on a list because one of their retard tests involves seeing if you have a http proxy email service.
If you do then they list you. No actual spam need be involved. They don't send an email to abuse@yourdomain or anything, they just list you.
It just so happens that I (used to) allow web access to email over an http proxy port.
Ok, so about ten days ago I closed it (sorry customers, I have to do this to get off this f*cking list).
I try to send the retest message from the server, this is the way they say they will take me off the list.
They are blocking my mail server, so they can't receive the retest request!!!! I try over and over all week.
Ok, so finally today I see on the list there is a place in Australia that did this to me so I send them a request to retest -
who knows how long they will take?
This is blatent restraint of trade, I do no spam, I allow no spam. I fight against spam on a daily basis.
Another case:
When the data center I use hosted a spammer domain all netblocks at the center got listed at SPEWS.
One IP address was involved, but at least several hundred were blocked.
I did the research, I convinced the data center to kick out their customer (with no clear violation of their AUP)
and I got the IP's delisted.
There is an answer to spam, and these RBL's is not it.
What it is going to take is a rethink of the email system itself. We need better software.
Many people use devices on their telephones to 'block' incoming calls, now there are things available to 'zap' your number out of marketing databases.
There are email systems being developed that will do the same kind of thing.
If your email server only accepted email from people you know, and quaranteen'ed mail from people you don't know until they gave some kind of human response, then asked you if you wanted to receive mail from that person it might do the trick.
No response in a certain time frame means their mail gets deleted. If their return address does not resolve they get deleted.
We need a better system, that is plain. The Free Wide Open Internet is too insecure in far too many ways.
When the email system was developed one of the rules was to have open relays so that everybody could use everyone elses servers.
We all learned about sharing in kindergarden right?
Well now we know that there are evil people in the world who will take advantage of us and make us all miserable.
We need some protection, apparently not only from the bad guys trying to spam everyone but also from the bad guys who see it as their duty to screw up the honest lawful operations of those of us who actually do anything about spammers on a daily basis.
(the militant anti-spammers)
/whew - soapbox mode OFF
