[147679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft JMRP (Mail) Admin Needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Dec 19 21:14:13 2011
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:13:19 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1324347023.29883.25.camel@watermelon.coderich.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/19/11 6:10 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
> I'm trying to sign up for Microsoft's Junk Mail Reporting Program.
> Multiple representatives keep sending me more-or-less form
> responses saying they can't add my dynamic customer IP ranges
> because they're "included in...[a] third party block list". The
> list in question is the SpamHaus PBL.
>
> They clearly don't understand that the SpamHaus PBL (unlike other
> SpamHaus lists) is not a list of IPs that have sent spam. I'm
> looking for someone with a clue that can help me.
>
> Thanks, Richard Laager Wikstrom Telephone Company
>
> P.S. Even ignoring the PBL, this policy of not enrolling IP ranges
> that are listed on DNSBLs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Even
> if the IPs had been sending spam, wouldn't Microsoft want the ISP's
> help in stopping that?
Have you tried removing the addresses in question from the PBL first?
~Seth
