There are certain ISPs, Roadrunner and Comcast come to mind, that are
extremely quick to block mail coming from other ISPs just because
someone sent spam to someone. Their filters are crude. So, the only
solution is to have an alternate outgoing server that you can use to
communicate with such people.
Nathan
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I hadn't thought of that. Before I had roadrunner, I had a local ISP
> that got tagged that way once. _No one_ would accept emails from that
> ISP for a couple of days. Then the ISP got the whole thing
> straightened out. It's one of the reasons I don't put a live e-mail
> link on my website. One one of my sites a while back, someone took the
> e-mail stuff and spammed half the planet. I was pretty embarrassed,
> though almost everyone knew it wasn't me who did it. But it didn't
> shut down the e-mail capability of the site, for some reason. At some
> point I may add one of those e-mail thingies on the site where you
> fill out a form and correctly type in a funky looking code to actually
> send the form.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Michael Collins wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> If you follow the link in the bounce notice you'll learn that his ISP
>> (RoadRunner) is not accepting mail from your ISP (EastLink) due to
>> EastLink
>> being the origin of too much spam (as they - RR - view it). This has
>> nothing
>> to do with Bob, however much he might want to take credit.
>>
>> Unfortunately, if you have no alternate ISP or e-mail service,
>> there's no
>> easy way around this; you might want to consider keeping a Gmail or
>> Hotmail
>> or similar account lying around for just this sort of eventuality.
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