Plusnet Mail Relays blocked by SORBS

The ongoing Plusnet spam issues have resulted in some of their relays
being listed in Sorbs. If any Plusnet customers have important emails to
send I would suggest you use a Hotmail or gmail account if you want to be
sure your mail is not being silently dropped.

Now, if they had a working 'abuse@' the would probably not have gotten
into that mess......



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Midnight, the stars a n d you.........

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:08:49 +0000, Ato_Zee struck up his trombone and
blew....

> On 15-Dec-2009, Al Bowlly <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> The ongoing Plusnet spam issues have resulted in some of their relays
>> being listed in Sorbs. If any Plusnet customers have important emails
>> to send I would suggest you use a Hotmail or gmail account if you want
>> to be sure your mail is not being silently dropped.
>
> And in some cases non delivery of mail can be expensive. In passing do
> they not have a contractural obligation, having accepted payment for the
> service, to resolve the issue? Once or infrequently, can be blamed on
> transient technical issues, but not long term ongoing problems.

Time for a song:
I'm sure their T&C will....

"wriggle like a snake and waddle like a duck, That's what you get when
you pay the Plusnet bucks......"

Seriously, you can't say I've not *tried* to resolve their abuse issues
with them. It was a cautionary tale along the lines of 'if you don't sort
this out, it will lead to a bigger problem'. Whilst their BT connection
may well keep them off Spamhaus, there are *plenty* of people using SORBS
and any Plusnet business customers would be right to be more than a
little *psssst* off by this.



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Midnight, the stars a n d you.........