Re: [Phys-L] Phys-L: Recent Developments

[bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On Nov 7, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Aburr@aol.com wrote:
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> Thank you for spending the time to keep the listserve running  smoothly


Yes, and I think it was my failure to receive msgs. that prompted Mark’s work.  

I had esosoft white list phys-l with this reply:  

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Hi Bernard,

I have whitelisted phys-l.org <http://phys-l.org/> so it will let future messages go through. However I checked the mail server log file from this morning and phys-l.org <http://phys-l.org/> was sending mail from an IP address 207.255.182.130. It's badly blacklisted all over the place. Especially from SpamHaus which is widely used. http://zy0.de/q/207.255.182.130 <http://zy0.de/q/207.255.182.130>. If you click on the multirbl link it will check various other blacklists and there are a lot of entries for this IP address. Also the sender base score is very low. I would seriously consider a different email provider because someone is not taking care of the spam originating from that network.

Hope this helps,

Robert
EsoSoft Service & Support

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> I and all of us thank Mark Kimball!
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> bc needs to white list at esosoft?


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On Nov 7, 2016, at 3:43 AM, Mark Kimball <phydocmarko@gmail.com> wrote:

Good Morning,

Recently messages sent from the Phys-L server were being bounced back from
certain network domains. This means that users whose mail is received at
those domains did not receive these messages.

The reason those domains -- some of them are big ones like gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> --
started to bounce messages from Phys-L is due to the IP address of the
Phys-L server being listed in a Policy Block List compiled by a particular
anti-spam organization. The policy that triggered entry to this list is the
dynamically-assigned IP address of the Phys-L server and nothing insidious
like sending actual spam.

I have made changes to the method that outgoing messages are sent to
members on the Phys-L mail list and believe messages will now be sent
without bouncing back to the server. I will continue to monitor the mail
logs and hope this issue is corrected now.

Sincerely,
Mark Kimball, Administrator
Phys-L.org <http://phys-l.org/>
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