Are the GCC lists intended to be open lists?

[Neil Booth]

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.

Neil.