[SATLUG] Attn: Bob Tracy

[Thomas King]

> 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.

Since I've began using my own email server from home, I've gotten a few
rejections because of the IP address range it comes from, RoadRunner. I don't
blame the recipient but it's near impossible to get cleared since I currently
cannot afford a business account with a static IP address. 'Asi es la vida.'