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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 12,732
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Spam Blocking/extortion
Hello friends,
As a service to my fellow PCA Chapter members, I send a periodic e-mail remonder about upcoming events. In my last message, I recieved the following automated response from several of the member ISP's:
"Permanent Failure:
550_Service_unavailable;_Client_host_[204.127.198.35]_blocked_using_dnsbl.sorbs.
net;_Spam_Received_See:_http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=204.127.198
.35"
When I went to the url shown, the fellow running the site has, by some means determined that my ISP is related to spamming and would remove them from the list if they donate $50/spam received to a charity of their choice. While quite noble, the potential for abuse is very high.
I guess this is another case of someone trying to fix one problem by punishing the innocent!
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Harry
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