[SATLUG] Attn: Bob Tracy

[Bob Tracy]

Geoff wrote:
> you've -got- to do something about your ISP...

Don't blame my ISP: I run my own mail server.  If you need to blame
someone, blame me because I'm the one that made a local policy decision
to filter incoming e-mail using continuously updated blacklists over
which I have no direct control other than to decide whether they are
trustworthy.  For the most part (definitely not 100% of the time) the
lists have been trustworthy...  Notable exceptions I remember include
the time vger.kernel.org ended up on one of the lists, and I recall
bugtraq getting blacklisted as well.  In both those cases, the black-
list managers fixed the problem within a day.

If there's anything I hate more than spam, it's rejecting legitimate
correspondence.  For that, I am truly sorry.  Of all the folks with whom
I regularly correspond, you're the only one who seems to get speared
regularly.  Please believe me when I say it's NOT personal.  Plenty of
my regular correspondents use Google's gmail service successfully, but
you got bitten when the SMTP client host that gmail chose to use for
your particular outbound message was flagged by SORBS as a spam source.
Clearly, that wasn't your fault or mine, just another instance of bad
luck among many such instances.  I can pretty much guarantee that
on a different occasion, a different client would be selected and your
message would get through to me just fine.

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Bob Tracy                   WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org
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