The spammers are winning (was RE: [TriLUG] Port 25 blocked)

[Jason S. Evans]

Gmail was also having a lot of trouble with Yahoo Groups, but after
"learning" for a couple of weeks, that finally got fixed.

Jason

On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:38:52 -0400, Rick DeNatale
<rick at denhaven2.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
> So far, my ISP still allows port 25, which is good because they also use
> draconian "spam" filtering on incoming mail to their servers.  For
> example:
> 
> * Mail from Yahoo groups which goes to my isp account frequently stops
> because is using a server which is on the Spamcop RBL.
> 
> * I'm continually running into mailing lists which are also on one of
> the RBL's which my ISP uses to trash incoming mails.  This prevents my
> getting the confirmation e-mail when I try to sign up. IIRC I had this
> problem with this mailing list, as well as several of the sourceforge
> lists.
> 
> I tried real hard to convince my ISP that throwing away email on this
> basis wasn't a good idea, but failed. That's why I set up a local mail
> server.  I just hope that they keep port 25 open.
> 
> In the meantime my local Spamassassin catches lots of spam which they
> blissfully pass through.
> 
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