North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP
> Bellsouth basically told me they were blocking Pair Networks because > the percentage of spam vs non-spam is around 75 - 80%. They say > they are communicating with them on this. Supposedly there was a > conference telephone call this past Thursday 09-22-2005. BS says > they must reduce this spam amount for the block to be removed. > > Pair seems to think it is mostly domain customers forwarding their > mailboxes to their BS dot Net email accounts. Yes, this is quite clearly the case; there are dozens of mutual customers who have forwarding rules setup. We are not generating Spam to send to Bellsouth; it's coming from somewhere else and then being forwarded. I imagine that at some time in the future, forwarding e-mail might become impractical, if receiving systems insist on parsing it as originated or relayed Spam. > This the first I've heard of BS having a 50/5 threshold limit. Bellsouth has given us no statistics, no logs, no headers, not even a timeframe for their vague claims. We can clearly see from our side that we are not generating nor relaying Spam. But our customers can no longer choose to forward their e-mail to Bellsouth. It seems that Bellsouth is restricting its customers. Kevin
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