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| Posted by dave2005 at May 9, 2005, 3:11:32 PM |
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localendar isp blacklisted by SPEWS - e-mail notification fails My localendar e-mail notification is not working. I believe that the problem is that the ip addresses used by localendar are "blacklisted" by spews.org ( Spam Prevention Early Warning System ). You can verify this by going to the spews.org website and looking up the localendar.net ( or localendar.com ) ip address. I realize that this probably is not localendar's fault. It looks like the localendar ips fall into a range of ip's ( 66.228.216.0/22 ) that are blacklisted. However, maybe there's some way this can be "fixed" by localendar since it will probably affect others as well. In my particular case, I can work around this by using a different e-mail address. - dave |
| Posted by support at May 9, 2005, 8:49:12 PM |
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Re: localendar isp blacklisted by SPEWS - e-mail notification fails Yeah - could be. If your email provider uses SPEWS than you're out of luck. We've been down the garden path w/ SPEWS before. They try and pretend to be a legitimate organization, but it's mostly a bunch of babies. How it works is this: When SPEWS arbitrarily decides that an IP address is being used by a spammer, they include an entire range of IP addresses in their block-list. So, at a co-location facility such as the one we use, 1 bad apple can result in the condemnation of a bunch of completely unrelated sites. The idea is that all of the "unfairly punished" sites will leave the supposedly "spam-friendly" vendor, thus putting them out of business. Or maybe the vendor will disconnect the one bad apple under pressure from the other sites. Even still, SPEWS is under no obligation to ever un-list a particular IP. It's completely arbitrary. Just a bunch of kids on a power trip. The last time we were listed, it turns out that the offending site's IP address actually *was* a spammer, but they had gone out of business and were replaced with a legitimate site. Constant efforts on our part to inform and educate SPEWS went unanswered. It appears a lot of places now realize the completely arbitrary methods of SPEWS are more trouble than they're worth. Sorry your email provider hasn't caught on yet  ---------------------------------------- Marc Higgins Support Associate, localendar.com Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news |
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