From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 25 06:38:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23783 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23714; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199802251438.GAA23714@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netcom blocked? In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Feb 24, 98 10:10:49 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:37:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: mvh@nofear.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Tom wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Michael V. Harding wrote: > > > I can't seem to send mail to the stable group from netcom - is this > > domain blocked? If so, it's sort of harsh - I can't even unsubscribe! > > > > Mike Harding > > Some netcom servers have been in out of the RBL lately. Netcom thinks > that is it really cool to allow unrestricted relaying. Any site that uses > RBL will simply refuse mail mail from RBL listed sites. I heard that the > President of Netcom called Paul Vixie personally to negotiate how to get > off the RBL. > > See http://maps.vix.com for RBL info. > > I'm not sure if any FreeBSD servers use RBL, but I think they should. we certainly do use the RBL. if netcom managed to get themselves blacklisted, well its not surprising given the amount of spam that they enable others to relay through them. i found your subscriptions: (i should have tried "mvh" first) freebsd-stable:mvh@netcom.com stable:mvh@netcom.com jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message