Re: will an honest French ISP please stand up

Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net> writes:
> > I just changed to 9telecom with the same result as Wanadoo when I mailed
> > Bruce.
> > Please tell me where I can find an ISP that has aDSL at under 30 EURO /
> > month and who isn't blocked by your spam filters.
>
> I can't speak for what Bruce is filtering, but judging from this message
> to the list, your European address is irrelevant.  The mail is actually
> getting delivered from apps.tgds.net [212.100.226.141].  The blacklist
> I use blocks that address because it belongs to rackspace.

All my spam blocking is documented at:

    http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/spam/

You can even see my sendmail rules and script for maintaining my
blocking list at the bottom of the page.

Any network that sends more than 3 spams from different machines I
assume is just a spamhouse, or a poorly administered ISP, and that's how
wanadoo.fr got on my list.   (I have since changed the block to
abo.wanadoo.fr).  I don't see many other ways to handle this unless I
want to spend more time deleting spam or researching ISP's.

I recently was having some spam get around my blocks by using my
secondary MX.  Yesterday I got some sendmail rules to fix that problem.

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