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Fw: iPermitMail Email Firewall



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net>


> Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> asked:
> > Has anyone else been getting these? Anyone know why? My messages post OK
to
> > the list, but I get this response.
>
> A BLU list subscriber apparently is using a proxy re-mailer to block all
> incoming mail that is not on a white-list.
>
> We're probably going to see this more and more.  Spammers are bringing on
> these really annoying countermeasures.
>
> Hopefully whoever subscribed to iPermitMail's spam-blocking service will
> recognize themselves and either add "To: discuss at blu.org" to the
whitelist, or
> discontinue the service and use another which is more mailing-list
friendly.

[snip]

I gave the source to the abuse address at ipermitmail.com.

I suggest EVERYONE on this list do the same thing, and add (as I did) a
statement that I will not use their service because of this kind of
obviously defective software.

HTH.

Bill






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