Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Silver! > The service provides a date and time stamp for the mail server admins to > investigate the sender. In this case, there were two attempts to deliver > at 20:57 CET on Feb 22. If the mail server stops trying to deliver email > to the spamtraps, then the mail server wil

Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Silver
The link posted in a previous email does provide the information on why the IP address was listed, and how to get it delisted. The IP address in question attempted to deliver email to spamtraps, also known as honeypots. They link to the Wikipedia article, but basically honeypots are systems, e

Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ross! > It would appear this has happened to your email address. As I understand it > your email address has been harvested and used to send spam to the mailing > list. This has nothing to do with email ADDRESS, for last time. It's my provider's mail server IP that got blocked.

Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Ross
I am sorry that you disregarded what I wrote: " One of the things that goes wrong is that our email addresses are harvested from contact lists and spambots distribute spam to those contact addresses using our valid addresses - spoofing, it is called. * In that way the list receives spam and the m

Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ross! > How is it you are able to achieve the success of sending the post to which > I am replying? Resending it manually through different mail provider, when I get a bounce. The rest of your post do not apply, as you apparently looking into wrong direction. Here's the bounce

Re: OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Ross
How is it you are able to achieve the success of sending the post to which I am replying? I don't think the version of Mailman running this list is anything new. Its function is to distribute mail to all the members that comes from a valid email address. That appears to work from my point of vi

OT: The list posting issues

2012-02-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ross! > I think as Don noticed, sending messages to the list from the wrong address > causes trouble. I am not aware of any problems when I send messages from > the correct address - ever. I always send mail from correct address. (It's just hardcoded into template for the list