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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:31:52 +0100
From: "Alberto di Bene" <dibene@usa.net>
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Subject: Re: LF: qsl.net again
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Peter Bowyer wrote:

> OK, they've now blocked the server I've been re-routing through. I 
> give up.
>  
> I know the people most affected won't get this - but I can no longer 
> support qsl.net addresses on the blacksheep.org reflectors. They've 
> finally driven us away.
>  
> If anyone feels like writing to them to ask them why, go ahead. I 
> can't, my only remaining server is blacklisted there.
>  
> Peter G4MJS


Probably it's not their fault. With most probability they are subscribed 
to some  "blacklist servers", which
are servers that collect addresses from which spam has, reportedly, 
generated. When a mail server,
in this case qsl.net, has subscribed to such a blacklist server, all its 
incoming mail is automatically
filtered according to the blacklisted addresses.

In this specific case, what could be done is to search which blacklist 
server has listed blacksheep.org,
and why... there is the possibility that the SMTP port of blacksheep.org 
has been used, unknowingly
by its administrators, to send unsolicited spam. It happens more often 
than one could think.

You could go to this page http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup and check 
whether the IP of your SMTP
server is listed there.

73  Alberto  I2PHD