[CS-FSLUG] When do you update your distribution?(testing)

[David]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 04:03 pm, Ed Hurst wrote:
> David wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 December 2004 10:10 am, David wrote:
> >>On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:42 am, N. Thompson wrote:
> >>Sorry guys, somehow my IP ended up on a spam blocking list and I cannot
> >>send mail to anyone for some reason so I am checking if I can reply to
> >> mail as opposed to sending.
> >
> > Only way to send this mail was to change my IP.
> >
> > How in the world did one of my IP's end up on a spam blocking list?
>
> Is your IP 69.211.138.241?

It was, not now. I changed it by letting my DSL assign me a new one.

> It's listed one place for being part of a 
> residential, dynamically assigned IP range. For the spam activists, that
> means you have no business running a mail server. 

I don't have any mail servers running here.

> Their reasoning is 
> that spammers often prefer to run their own mail servers from such IPs.
>
> In another list, it's blocked because it is part of a bunch IPs that
> actually have sent spam to a spam trap.

Well I sure hope I don't get assigned that IP again. We'll see in the future.

David M.