[GRLUG] SORBS

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:05:52PM -0400, Dave Brondsema wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 09:03 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > We should not be using SORBS on our list. This is what my provider
> > said, 
> > 
> > "Dear Customer,
> > 
> > Unfortunately there is nothing we can do as we do not do business with
> > SORBS.
> > SORBS are an extortion racket that randomly blacklists hosting companies
> > in
> > order to get them to pay money to remove them off of their black list. 
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > John"
> > 
> > 
> I don't know about SORBS' practices, but I got blocked by SORBS when
> posting to this list a while ago too.   I was using my standard Comcast
> outgoing mail server.  I had another mail server at my disposal, so I
> switched to use that.  So I'd recommend dropping SORBS also

I occasionally get a post rejected due to my Dreamhost server being
"blacklisted" though the very next message may well get through.  It's
odd.
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john-thomas
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