[SATLUG] Attn: Bob Tracy

[Geoff]

Bob Tracy wrote:
> 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.

What baffles me, Bob, is that I can send -you- a message one time, and 
it gets through, just fine. 
You respond to it, and then I respond to -that- message, only to find 
out that the address is blocked. 

This has happened on three different occasions, with three different 
originating ISP's.

Perhaps you could edit your mail rules file, or whatever you need to do, 
to specifically allow -my- domain
(I run my own mailserver here, as well).

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