[G4] Is anybody there?

[Garth Fletcher]

David DelMonte wrote:
> Actually, many people seem to have been dropped from all of the 
> Macintoshguy lists over the past two weeks.. Things seem to have 
> returned to normal yesterday though there is no telling if other 
> colleagues are still locked out. Frequent emails to the listmom have 
> gone unanswered.
> 
> David


I too got dropped, apparently due to excessive "bounces".

I discussed this with my ISP - concerned about why and how email
addressed to me might get bounced (not good for business!).

Here is their explanation, lightly edited:

 > The reason that mail from the list is bouncing is because it's being
 > sent from a mailserver that has no reverse DNS lookup.
 >
 > The problem occurs iff the list server XXXXXX.org resolves to
 > aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, but aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd does not resolve back to
 > XXXXXX.org.  Officially, every mail server on the Internet is supposed
 > to resolve in both directions.  It verifies that the incoming mail is
 > really coming from the source that it reports to be. Spammers, who don't
 > want to be known, usually send out spam via servers that do not resolve
 > one way or the other, and so we will block emails from these servers.
 >
 > We do relax that rule from time to time, when the mail traffic is low.
 > These days there is an increasing need to leave the filters on, and my
 > personal belief is that eventually the filters will be left on
 > permanently.
 >
 > So what to do from here? Let the owners of the mailing list know that
 > we, like many other ISP's including AOL, will not accept mail from mail
 > servers that do not have a reverse DNS entry.

Hope this helps...
-- 
Garth