[122976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATT / Bellsouth Email Feedback Loop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Thu Feb 25 11:15:33 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B869EA7.5070409@sunwave.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:15:03 -0500
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:00, Wade Peacock <wade.peacock@sunwave.net> wrot=
e:
> Greetings Brain Trust,
>
> We have found ATT to be heavy handed with their email (spam) filtering.
> Without warn all of our mail servers will be denied from delivering email=
to
> their many domains (att.net, bellsouth.net, etc). They have a removal
> request form (like most other large ISPs) which takes 2 days to process. =
We
> never find out why the we get listed. We always check as many "email"
> reputation systems and rbl searches to determine why. =A0Everywhere we
> look we see no evidence of a problem. We have joined other ISP feedback l=
ook
> system, (AOL, Yahoo and even Hotmail/Live) which all have helped stop iss=
ues
> (comprised accounts, bots, etc) before they get to the point of a
> listing/block.
>
> I have searched and I can not find out definitively whether ATT has or do=
es
> not has a feedback loop system. Anyone out there know?
I know of no ATT FBL system.
If you are getting ATT rejects, then you can enter some info here:
http://worldnet.att.net/general-info/block_admin.html
However, if you are getting blackhole'd you have no recourse, IMHO.
If any AT&T rep wants to step forward, I've know a few people waiting
in the wings with very similar issues. One even suggested the
blackhole'ing is related to American Idol, as you need to keep your
pipes clean for those revenue generating SMS texts. ;-)
-Jim P.
