From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 18: 8:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF0837B401 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7B743E6E for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468ED28D03; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 21:08:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Ken McGlothlen Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: <-- NOT A SPAMMER In-Reply-To: <86ado3f9l2.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Message-ID: <20020804210422.W81329-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On 3 Aug 2002, Ken McGlothlen wrote: > I'm guessing it's due to the message you sent out earlier with a subject line > of "URGENT RECOMMENDATION", which is used by a large percentage of Nigerian > scammers. It probably tripped antispam filters all over. Even I thought it I don't want to live in a world where typing a subject all in caps gets you listed as a spammer! How about one of the other eighteen-million other schemes being used where people *report* spam (or the smtp's used to transmit such spam) to a realtime blocking list such as www.mail-abuse.org or www.spamcop.net or another... Just think how quickly in a perfect world spam could be blocked! > was probably spam at first glance; as it was, it was a valuable enough > recommendation that I saved it. :) Hehe. > I've written a short note on your behalf to the contact form at voytech.com; we'll see what they say. Why thank you. > Actually, Interland is one of the most unethical ISPs in the Western Hemisphere. You might want to consider moving to a different one at some point. If anyone knows a provider that hosts on *NIX for about $15-30 a month and allows sftp and POP3s (port 995) on shared hosting please post! I'm considering dumping Interland. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message