Re: Elecraft postings blocked by sorbs etc as SPAM

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Re: Elecraft postings blocked by sorbs etc as SPAM

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ
Administrator
Hi Dave,

It is probably not anything directly related to your email content. Qth.net,
like many major ISPs, uses several methods to prevent their system's overload by
floods of spam. One method is to use the blacklists hosted at
http://www.us.sorbs.net/  (See this page for more details.)

Your ISP's mail server, the same one you use to send email, may have another
user whose computer is infected by a SPAM sending virus and is in turn flooding
the net with SPAM emails. When this happens the sorbs server temporarily
blacklists your email server's address so everyone can block the SPAM before it
overloads their main mail systems. Unfortunately this also blocks all legitimate
emails sent via that send mail SMTP server. Fortunately your ISP is usually very
  motivated to find the offending party so their server can become un-blocked.
Typically these blocks are lifted after a day or two.

So check to see if you can send after waiting a day or more. If it is still
blocked, feel free to email us at: [hidden email] and we will
repost for you while this gets sorted out.

73, Eric  WA6HHQ
Elecraft List Moderator


Dave Sublette wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I don't seem to be able to post to the Elecraft list. I have been having
> trouble for about a week.  One reject I recieved from when I was on the
> road at the Opryland  Hotel said something about being identified as a
> source of Spam....I don't spam. Is there something wrong with my
> subscription status?
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave Sublette, K4TO
>
>
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