Re: Re: Problem with Blocklists on list.php.net

Manuel, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote: | Hello, | | | That may not be the right way to solve the problem. The blacklists exist | because spammers were allowed to post from the given zones. The right | way to solve the problem is to contact your ISP to sort out the problems | and they should be the ones to get unlisted. The problem is that the list assumes that ALL users from Brazil are spammers!! | If you ignore the blacklists, all sorts of spammers will be allowed to | send messages to the lists. If you are inteligent there are a lot of _good_ blackhole lists out there. This one tries to kill a mosquito with an missile. ;/ | I know that UOL the largest Brazilian provider is block SMTP connections | to any servers outside their networks. Hopefully they will have their IP | ranges unlisted soon. No, they won't. I know who admin their SMTPs and already told them that. But we have 2 problems here: 1. The admin of that black list is in vacation. 2. If you read the page you will see this text: "Yes, I do accept requests for new blocklists. No, none of the currently published blocklists accept removal requests." | Meanwhile, people affected by the blocking may want to try posting via | the news server at news.php.net . I admin a network on my college and I would send mails from there, but its blocked too. P.S.: someone please forward this mail. Até Antônio "Can't buy what I want because its FREE!" - Pearl Jam floripa@PHP.net | PHP & FreeBSD & MySQL | PGP Key ID 0x5BBEB073

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