[at-l] AOL Blocking problems - some 'tech' stuff

[ryan at hack.net (Ryan Brooks)]

Jim Bullard wrote:

> At 07:30 AM 2/20/2004 -0500, Martin Fors wrote:
>
>> This is a bit of information and hopefully you all will show some 
>> grace to
>> AOL users in their problem.  BTW, Jack my friend, COMCAST has been 
>> proven to
>> be the highest Spam processing ISP in the world.  Most Spammers use 
>> COMCAST
>> as their ISP and spoof their sending from address:
>>
>> The problem could be that ATL-L's particular IP got onto dnsbl.us.sorbs
>> blocking list.  AOL uses this, I believe, in their anti-Spam 
>> software.  This
>> might have happened because either the ISP itself or someone else 
>> reported
>> the IP as a Spammer.  Someone who does not like this list may have 
>> done it.
>> They also could've used a netblock - which is confusing because that 
>> kind of
>> block refers to a range of domains rather than the act of blocking an
>> individual IP, and ATL-L's IP got accidentally gobbled up by it.  I 
>> don't
>> know if that has been the case.  It is used to block 
>> dynamically-assigned
>> IP's.  If you're interested DNSBL gives a long blurb about justifying 
>> what
>> they do.  It's quite hard to get off their s--t list.
>>
>> http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net
>>
>> rusty
>
>
> According to that you may be listed as a result of someone else 
> hijacking your computer to send spam (this can happen without your 
> even knowing it) or even because you 'inherited' an IP address that 
> someone else had used for sending SPAM (see 
> <http://www.dnsbl.au.sorbs.net/SpamDBFAQ.html>. Whether you are the 
> guilty party or not you have to pay a "fine" to get off their list. It 
> appears to me that switching ISPs or moving your email to an Internet 
> mail account is the only real solution.
>
>

This is definitely not what is happening with the AT-L.

Fyi,

R

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