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Re: [NANOG] Block: Road Runner Internal IP blacklist 72.22.18.105

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton Popovich)
Fri Apr 25 11:21:17 2008

From: "Clinton Popovich" <crpopovi@nauticom.net>
To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Bj=F8rn_Mork'?=" <bjorn@mork.no>,
	"'Matthew Evans'" <mevans@alphatheory.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ve26au7e.fsf@obelix.mork.no>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:20:45 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

This issue has been resolved thanks all!

Clinton Popovich
Systems Administrator
Consolidated Communications, Inc.
Formerly Nauticom Internet Services
Tel: 724-933-9540
Fax: 724-933-9888
Email: Clinton.Popovich@consolidated.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bj=F8rn Mork [mailto:bjorn@mork.no] =

Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 10:24 AM
To: Matthew Evans
Cc: Clinton Popovich; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: [NANOG] Block: Road Runner Internal IP blacklist 72.22.18.105

Matthew Evans <mevans@alphatheory.com> writes:

> Road Runner utilizes a volume based spam block from my
> understanding. If you send over X amount of email in Y amount of time,
> they block you. You need to create a rule that staggers the number of
> messages you send to all rr.com domains so as to not trigger the
> threshold and become blocked. See here for the limits:
> http://security.rr.com/spam.htm#ratelimit

So they'll block all the major ISPs smtp relays, but not the infected
PCs used to inject spam?  Smart.  Do their customers really accept this?


Bj=F8rn


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