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[Brian Hechinger]

I spent many years working for email providers of some sort or another and I can say that not a single one of those blacklist services is worth a damn.

-brian
On Jul 30, 2020, 20:26 -0400, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>, wrote:
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> > On Jul 30, 2020, at 5:39 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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> > Other times mails gets denied because of some blocking service who thinks the hecnet mails are just spam, or the host (Update) is untrustworthy, or have a bad reputation or what not. Usually not much I can do about those either. If people (or companies) decide to make use of such services, and such services give that kind of information, it essentially just means that you'll not be getting the hecnet mails any more.
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> I used to encounter some of these, haven't seen them recently. Your comment was rather more polite than what I would say. I consider those blacklists to be idiot systems run by people with bonapartist tendencies. That opinion was formed some years ago when a well known blacklist outfit took it upon itself to (deliberately and proudly) block all Comcast addresses. The excuse given was that some Comcast customers are spammers. Which of course is a garbage argument.
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> paul
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