The Sunday 2005-01-23 at 17:19 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
However, it is recommended that dial-up users use their providers relay for exactly this reason. In fact, some providers even block port 25 making it impossible for people on dial-up to run their own mail-server. But I agree that completely blocking based on SORBS or other dial-up lists is not The Right Thing(R) to do.
Tonight, using an IP from Tiscali I can not email users in Tiscali, because Tiscali is blacklisted by I they don't say whom. Unbeliavable, blocking themselves. Using an IP from Terra, the result is the same. Worse, I can not email Patrick, which I usually can: <pat@wahoo.no-ip.org>: host wahoo.no-ip.org[24.208.208.146] said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [81.41.201.179] blocked using cbl.abuseat.org; Blocked - see http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=81.41.201.179 (in reply to RCPT TO command) I can't email "C Hamel" neither: 8D98120DD0 2390 Mon Jan 24 00:58:33 ***@tiscali.es (connect to mailgate.sc2000.net[64.88.197.254]: server refused mail service) ***@sc2000.net So, things are prety bad today. I can email to the list, hopefully...
And the exact culprit can be got, with a court order, in Spain. The providers, by law, keep a list of each connection with the phone number used to connect each time. Spammers can be known. It only needs determination on the part of the law enforcing establishment, politics, police, judges, etc, to get at them.
Start with the provider I would suggest. Telefonica was blacklisted by ahbl.org because they refused to do anything (or at least ignored the requests) about spammers.
They will not do anything unless you go to the court, I think. Those lists are not disclossed to anybody, by law. Also, Telefonica has the biggest market share by a big amount, and on a Sunday nobody is responsible for anything. Clients are supposed to contact them using extra-cost phone numbers and a nightmare of clerks passing the ball to another clerk. I know... I have worked for them. A complain sent by email? You gotta be kiddin. :-/ -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson