[GRLUG] SORBS

[Godwin]

I configure all my mail servers (including GRLUG's) to use SORBS and must
admit our mail server at work got blacklisted once due to a workstation
getting infected for a few hours.

I followed their free simple steps and we were delisted by next day.  It is
true they are a bit overzealous in their blacklisting, but in my experience
not extortionists or difficult to use.

I do check other services as well so I suppose I could stop using them.
Consider this an early Christmas.   :-)

G-
 On Jul 28, 2011 10:17 PM, "John-Thomas Richards" <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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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