Re: Mail relaying and subscriptions

From: Edward Cherlin (Edward.Cherlin.SY.67@aya.yale.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 10:53:12 EDT


At 11:14 AM 6/30/2001, Sarasvati wrote:
>This is a public service announcement.
>
>Do you think you're on the Unicode mail list, but you don't seem to be
>getting any mail? Do you know someone who thinks they're on the list, but
>doesn't seem to be getting mail? If so, you may be another victim of the
>War Against Spam. More and more hosts are scrutinizing incoming mail, and
>mail being relayed out to remote users. I receive an ever-increasing
>number of mail delivery failures in one of the following flavors:
>
> 572 Relay not authorized
> 550 We do not relay for unauthorized hosts.
> 550 Relaying denied to ...
> 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for ...
>
>There is nothing I can do about these. In fact, we similarly deny
>relaying service to unauthorized systems.
...

Thank you. Keep up the good work.

Another list that I read has a related problem. There I can read but not
post, because I am sending from a domain, pacbell.net, that still
apparently has some open relays. This has earned it a place on somebody's
blacklist.

>Cheery regards from your,
> -- Sarasvati

Ed Cherlin
Coalition Against UCE
<http://www.cauce.org>



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