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Re: Are the GCC lists intended to be open lists?
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:23:08PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
>Joe Buck wrote:-
>>Another reason you may find yourself blocked from posting is if you
>>have a dynamic IP address assigned by a well-known ISP, and you
>>configure your machine to speak SMTP directly to gcc.gnu.org when mail
>>is delivered to gcc.gnu.org. That will trigger a block; you need to
>>configure your mailer to relay through your ISP's SMTP server, which
>>will be set up to only relay for the ISP's own customers.
>
>Heh, my problem was the other way round. My ISP's 13 servers were
>blacklisted at random intervals, depending upon how recently ORBS had
>discovered that one of Demon's customers was running an open relay,
>whose probe happened to have been sent through that server.
>
>That was fixed by my sending all mail direct 8-) I'm dial-up.
It's not a permanent solution, though, if we go back to using a
service that blocks DULs. That was part of the motivation with
going to five-ten-sg.com.
If/when that happens again, then I assume that people sending email
from their DHCP'd IP addresses will be affected.
cgf