[183242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data Center operations mail list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Aug 20 13:49:12 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:48:28 -0400
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150820154309.GB19948@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
FWIW I agree.
On August 20, 2015 at 11:43 rsk@gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec) wrote:
>
> It appears that this list is sending its outbound traffic via Amazon's
> cloud operation.
>
> This is a profoundly horrible idea, not through any fault of yours, but
> because Amazon's cloud operation is a massive, non-stop fountain of spam
> and Amazon personnel flatly refuse to lift a finger to do anything about it.
> As a result of this incompetence/negligence, some folks out there have
> taken defensive measures which may include firewalling, blocking, discarding,
> rejecting, etc. Thus this is not someplace that you want to try to send
> mail from if you really care about having it delivered.
>
> I recommend moving it elsewhere. And I'm perfectly willing to assist with
> that (either selecting another location or facilitating the move or both).
>
> ---rsk
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