From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 6:43:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBAB37B405 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 06:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1JEhQZ52164; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:43:26 GMT (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C726479.9010907@rambo.simx.org> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:43:05 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sandro Mancuso Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PLEEEEEASE READ!!!!!sorry had to try it References: <002001c1b952$27408080$6400a8c0@windows> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sandro Mancuso wrote: >Why is it that my isp (videotron, something like rr or @home in Quebec) >is banned or blocked something from this mailing list, forcing me to use >hotmail to send to here... but AOL.. of all "isp's" (I use that >designation loosely), containing IDIOTS like this person that sent this >message is allowed to post? I'm honestly quite confused > The fact that some hosts are blocked from posting to the freebsd lists has nothing or very little to do with its users. AFAIK, the hosts that are not allowed to send to this list is blocked for technical or anti-spam reasons, not due to a lack of clue among its users. My guess is that your ISP's has a problem with DNS, or reverse DNS to be precise. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message