Hi Dennis,
I am well aware of that, and my email, according to spamhaus, was in the
list. And, I know who put it there, because he smugly told me he did it.
To get out of the list, spamhaus requires you give them your name, real
verifiable address, phone number, and a bunch of other stuff that I would
have to be insane to trust they would not abuse.
The sad point is that a single person, can get spamhaus to put an email
into the blackhole forever with no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Spamhaus is a group of Social Justice Warriors, and like SJW's everywhere,
they don't allow little things like facts to get in the way of their
mission.
It has nothing to do with the user's ISP, purely the email address.
I know this because my email provider gave me the same username with
rcn.com, starpower.com, and erols.com. Only the latter was blocked.
I got out of the list when I threatened both Verizon and yahoo with a
lawsuit for unlawfully blocking me from my customers, and more importantly
my aged mother.
-Chuck Harris
Dennis Tillman W7PF wrote:
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Hi Chuck,
A common misconception is that an email Sender whose IP address is listed on a DNSBL (Domain Name System-based Blackhole List) is 'blocked' from sending out email. In fact Senders are in no way prevented by DNSBLs from sending email. The Spamhaus DNSBLs are used only by RECEIVING mail systems on private networks and are used voluntarily.
Spamhaus does not tell a 3rd-party mail system what to do with an item of email, the 3rd-party mail system asks Spamhaus for an opinion and Spamhaus responds to that request with its opinion. In effect the receiving mail server asks the Spamhaus DNSBL "Does this Sender's IP Address exist on the Spamhaus database?", the Spamhaus DNSBL simply responds with a "Yes" if present or, if not present does not respond at all (no response means "we have no opinion on that IP Address").
Dennis Tillman W7PF
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Harris
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2018 5:33 AM
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A long while ago, I engaged in an email conversation with a group member
that did not like what I had to say, and rather than talk to me about
it, he reported my email address to the misguided SJW folks at spamhaus.
From that point on, my email was rejected by every ISP that used their
lists of "known" spammers to "protect" their customers. Verizon FIOS
accounts were, at that time, using yahoo as their email system, and they
were one of the ISPs that were using the spamhaus lists.
