[kictanet] Dirty IPs

Odhiambo Washington odhiambo at gmail.com
Thu May 5 12:00:18 EAT 2011


On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:32, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This post has nothing to do with the sewer laid fibre cable but IPs that
> are
> > treated as being sources of spam.
> > My ISP has issues with their IP ranges more because of having a wide open
> > smtp server, what recourse do I have with them when they do not resolve
> the
> > issue?
>
> If you can't teach them, then you will have to change providers.
>
> You can always try to get your assigned IPs whitelisted, but that involves
> getting the folk who run the black lists to NOT treat whole allocations as
> spam sources, which in my experience is more difficult than switching
> providers.
>
>
Fortunately, sane RBL maintainers only block the actual IPs, not the whole
blocks, so it's easy to get around it if you get assigned a static IP (which
may even be from a different block!).

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Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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