[svlug] OT: I live in an email ghetto - Brian Bilbrey, email rejected

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:49:33PM -0700, Todd Lyons (todd at mrball.net) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wanted us to know:
> 
> >I tried replying to your off-list mail and got the following result.
> >Please inform your ISP that ghettoizing the Internet is *not* the answer
> >to Spam.
> 
> SOPs are to subscribe to the DUL.  If your IP block is listed in the
> DUL, you're kinda screwed.  Use the smart host in that case.

SOP is to check your premises before spewing low-grade signal on a 
mailinglist.  My hosts IP is in my headers:

    http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup?81.108.149.163

Result:

    The IP address 81.108.149.163 does not appear on the MAPS RBL.

    Please note that neither the MAPS RBL nor any other MAPS list
    works on a domain name, only IP addresses are involved. 

If you'd cared to follow your own SOP, or any of the links thoughtfully 
provided by the author of the original post, you'd find that the IP in 
question is neither a dialup, nor tests as a spam source on any of 
several query tools.  Including those of AOL, another ISP currently 
ghettoizing the net.

Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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