[183250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data Center operations mail list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Possamai)
Fri Aug 21 21:19:25 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
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From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:18:59 -0500
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Quick update: I moved away from Amazon SES to a private smtp server
provided by Chris, who is also helping moderate the list.
I left Amazon SES configured as a backup since the bounce rate after
thousands of emails peaked at only 0.08%
Thanks!
Rafael
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> 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
>
