[X-Newbies] known issue with .biz email address?

[Steven Rogers]

On May 12, 2007, at 6:53 AM, John Park wrote:

> All I can tell you is I sent an email from john at johnpark.biz to  
> tim at juggler.com and the administrator said anything with a .biz  
> gets flagged as spam and doesn't get through because .biz is so  
> well known as being spammy...


Then yes, there's an issue with the administrator at juggler.com  
seeing .biz as spam. That's a stupid approach to handling spam, IMO,  
but that doesn't really matter. Every domain is used to originate  
spam. The question is not whether a domain is "spammy" (as if that  
meant anything) but whether you expect to get legitimate mail from  
that domain. Many people could dump some country-specific domains  
like .kr, but generally throwing out all mail from a domain is not a  
solution. You might try saying "I'm not a spammer, and I have a .biz  
domain - what about that?".

But in any case, it's unlikely that you'll be able to talk the admin  
out of his current approach. If you want to send them email, send it  
from a yahoo or hotmail account - one of those domains that is so  
well known for being spam free.

SR