Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Maxnet and Spamcop ::
Our College email is handled now by the ISP (Maxnet) sadly two of Maxnet's SMTP servers have been blacklisted by Spamcop. As a result mail from the College (and from everyone else using Maxnet to send email) is being blocked by other ISPs who use Spamcop. Spam is an atrocious plague on email, but are Spamcop being w bit too harsh, here are their claims about Maxnet:
For this emails from a large number of individuals and institutions is getting blocked, perhaps one can take eternal vigilance too far as the price of freedom!
¶ 4:34 PM
[to Del.icio.us]
Our College email is handled now by the ISP (Maxnet) sadly two of Maxnet's SMTP servers have been blacklisted by Spamcop. As a result mail from the College (and from everyone else using Maxnet to send email) is being blocked by other ISPs who use Spamcop. Spam is an atrocious plague on email, but are Spamcop being w bit too harsh, here are their claims about Maxnet:
Causes of listing
System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)
Additional potential problems
(these factors do not directly result in spamcop listing)
Listing History
In the past 77.2 days, it has been listed 2 times for a total of 3.4 days
For this emails from a large number of individuals and institutions is getting blocked, perhaps one can take eternal vigilance too far as the price of freedom!
¶ 4:34 PM
[to Del.icio.us]
