What a horrible question?! Situation: I have run a postfix/spamd-SA/RAV/ecartis based Email list service (confirmed opt in, never redistributed a spam in some years now). It runs off a box at home through British Telecom broadband and is low volume (the lists concern psychotherapy and psychotherapy research: my day job, and are run for some charities). Since 22.vi.03 AOL have started refusing my smtp traffic (with a 4.0.0 message so I didn't find out for some days). Netscape are doing same.
Turns out when I finally get a British Telecom supervisor on the phone to complain that I get no response to my complaints to them by Email, that AOL are moderately well justified in doing this because it seems that BT ran open relay for some time (he says not since last November which sounds untrue but even that seems unbelievably stupid). Since mine is a BT IP address I'm blocked and I would be if I relayed through BT's server. (Though they'd like to charge me more for the priviledge of doing that now they've understood relaying and clamped it down -- rightly -- 'cos they do it by domain name as well as IP address and ... aargh .... you get the picture). So I'm looking for a Debian (since I like Debian!) ISP, ideally in the UK, who would be willing for me to relay for psyctc.org, atprn.org, atprn.org.uk (all on 217.34.100.194, coming out through 198). I've got a shorewall firewall, RAV scanning for virii (but probably ditching that something else now they've joined M$!) and spamd-SA-razor doing antispam and loads of other antispam from postfix. Total traffic is 682k messages out in just under a year according to mailgraph, it says max ever was 1012 mssgs/min and mean 1.6 msgs/min. Most are very small, basic Email list traffic. My own traffic contains occasional large (16Mb record I think) stats and presentation files. Not a lot of money for this as I do it as a gesture for the charities but I am willing to pay something if anyone is willing and will quote me. I can either relay everything or just aol & netscape for now. I will take relaying out if things settle down. Anyone willing to offer, please contact me off list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA, Chris PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
