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[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Works for me. I've been spending scads of time feeding junk into
Spamcop concerning scams regarding nonexistent surveys for good and
not really good stores and websites. One site, AWS in fact didn't make
the connection that website was in fact hosted on their EC2 instances.
But all of the ISps the idiot was devaluing were based in Europe. And
he thought that filling the text body of the messages with nonsense
unrelated to the real messages would confuse most systems. It would
confuse some filtering systems, and probably those blacklist services.

Johnny any ideas on what your next steps are, besides ignoring those clowns?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 9:04 PM Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> -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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