Re: Bounce from andre@linuxdiskcert.org

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 06:59:22AM -0800, Nicholas Knight wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2001 03:33 am, Gérard Roudier wrote:
> > Hello Andre,
> >
> > I already said you that my replies get not accepted by your email
> > agents.
> >
> > If you want to post to an open list then you want to accept messages
> > from people subscribed to that list. Doing different is just
> > impoliteness.
> 
> 
> Andre isn't the only one that does this. It seems many people enjoy 
> blocking people with access to only one smtp server. Esspecialy when 
> that server is on a very small, isolated ISP, or an ISP that people 
> just ASSUME is up to bad things.
> 
> David Weinehall sent me a private email recently, to which I responded, 
> but didn't go through because, oh wonder of wonders, the pocketinet 
> smtp server is listed on A spam list, and an apparent alias, 
> white.pocketinet.com, is on two.
> 
> Now, aren't all these spam lists supposed to try and CONTACT the 
> providers to get the issue resolved before blacklisting them? I know 
> for a fact that if someone had actually contacted pocketinet about the 
> problem customer that sent spam, they would have taken care of it 
> promptly. It's a very small ISP in a remote area of Washington State, 
> and it's run by friendly and competent people.

Hmmm. I guess you could e-mail me through tao@kernel.org instead.


/David
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