[Tig] earthlink blocking independent ISPs

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Feb 20, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Dan C. Tatut wrote:

> Right... Although the ISP policy is another debate, it becomes a  
> problem for all the people that use mail-based forums such as TIG  
> and others because the email traffic is considered as abnormal  
> (lots of mails sent and received) and the tools they use for  
> monitoring this do not "read" emails to check if the TIG is a  
> respectable forum or a spam-mechanism...

actually Dan the TIG mailinglist traffic per se is not responsible  
for the problem with earthlink rejection: the problem is the IP  
address of the submitting host, and the blacklisting policy at  
earthlink.  TIG mail follows all the RFCs in its header writing and  
should never trigger any kind of spam mechanism, unless that  
mechanism is quite broken.

> However we (users) shall at least have the possibility to notify  
> the ISP about the problems we have... but they barely listen to  
> than and sometimes they do not event understand the problems (I  
> mean their technicians or non-qualified-phone-operators they employ).

yes, read the experiences dreamhost went through at
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/01/06/earthlinkcbl-update/

for a fairly complete explanation of what one provider is up
against.

regards
Rob
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