Re: [IRCA] FW: Delivery status notification

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Pogue wrote:
> Patrick, this is what I am getting when I try to e-mail you directly. It
> looks like Web TV may be seeing my e-mail address as spam. I'm bumfuzzled!?

That's just what's happening - here's the key line:

> SMTP: host 209.240.204.26: 556
> <qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net[76.96.62.24]>: Client host rejected:
> Resource unavailable - listed by external RBL
> http://info.webtv.net/spam/index.html#76.96.62.24

And if you follow that "helpful" link, you get a webpage that explains 
MSN/WebTV's semi-brain-dead "spam-prevention" policy, which probably 
does very little in real life to prevent spam.

But in a nutshell, your particular IP has apparently been listed on an 
unspecified "external RBL" - a "realtime blacklist" that attempts to 
track the IP addresses used by spammers, which is nearly useless when 
you're dealing with dynamic IP addresses on large ISPs that might be 
used by a spammer one minute and by innocent Jim the next.

That "helpful" link includes a form at the end to input your IP address 
to see what its blacklist status is. It claims that Jim's IP isn't 
blocked, though it clearly is.

Like I said, the policy is braindead. Good luck changing it, though...

s



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