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

[Ian Kluft]

>From: "Karsten M. Self" <kmself at ix.netcom.com>
>on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:58:00PM -0700, Aaron T Porter (atporter at primate.net) wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:32:16PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> >     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. 
>> 
>> 	There are more blacklists than MAPS.
>> 
>> http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?ip=81.108.149.163&Search=Search
>
>Which shows the address as an NTL "dialup equivalent".  Cable, however, 
>isn't dialup.  And there are no other listings for this address.  DSL / 
>dynamically allocated IPs are not DUL.
>
>Care to think of how many small or independent operators are running on 
>such systems?
>
>In my case, this is my best-case email solution.  It's not my box, it's 
>offered by a friend, and it's being gradually marginalized.  For no 
>reason other than the fact this is a dynamic IP.
>
>Consider that community bastions such as Slashdot and Kuro5hin 
>originated as personal systems on consumer grade networks.  This is an 
>opportunity window of the Internet which is being gradually closed 
>down.

Karsten -

Your residential cable ISP is on at least two blocking lists.
I don't know how widely subscribed they are but here's what I found.
   http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=81.108.149.163
(BTW, that IP address is in the Netherlands.  When did you move there?)

I don't know if AOL considers these lists at all.  They have a history
of maintaining their own internal blocking lists with mysterious criteria.
For a reference I checked my residential DSL again and didn't find any
listings, and haven't seen rejections from AOL.  So there's something
going on in your network that's worse than average.

If I had to guess... Chances are that actual abuses originated from there
at some point which the ISP didn't take any/enough action to mitigate.
Now all their customers suffer.

And a side note - please don't label someone else's response as "low signal"
on a thread you started with "OT" in the subject.  We're trying to help you
quantify the problem.  I realize you're frustrated but direct that at your
cable ISP, not us.  Calm down and try to go easy on us.