[TriLUG] spamhaus enforcing limits on connections

[Jason Watts]

hmm... cant deny that any server with open relay will end up being used for
spam.  I can say that my clients have complained in small spats about
receiving spam (but all spam catching devices need to be tuned continuously
for new spam.) and MessageLabs is quite responsive to a phone call about
that.  My company also goes though MessageLabs and I receive no spam and my
co-workers have almost never complained if at all about spam.

If you want to talk about bad providers, check out FrontBridge.  I believe
it was last week that they were blacklisted by Hotmail... both hotmail and
FB are owned by MS... now, how does that happen  :).  PS their tech support
SUCKS...  and its near impossible to get to a tier to in order to have an
email trace ran.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Amnon <amnon at deltaforce.net> wrote:

> > My company is a reseller of Message Labs.  from the dealings I have had
> with
> > their tech support, they are pretty sharp.  It also seems to do a fairly
> > good job of filtering email.
>
> Funny, but I find myself adding their mail servers to our blacklist
> constantly
> because of clients complaining of spam coming from them.  They also don't
> do a
> thing about it until one of their clients complains to them that they
> cannot
> send email to us.  Then they want to know what where who etc..
>
> IMHO, any company which specialize in email as their core income, will
> open the
> door for spammers, since it is very VERY profitable :-)
>
> Shalom Y'all
> Amnon Nissan
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