In late January the moblind.org website was added to the mail-abuse.org blacklist. It is one of many spam blacklists. Comcast and Road Runner filter their email using the mail-abuse.org blacklist and started bouncing our emails. In other words, all mail sent from moblind.org to Comcast and Road Runner customers were being blocked. We immediately began working with the blacklist administrators to get us removed from the lists. Then on February first AT&T also began bouncing our emails. It appears today, February 6, 2011, that we have been removed from the blacklist and all mail traffic is getting through. So this afternoon I re-subscribed all moblind.org mailing list users that were affected. To get us removed from the blacklist it took the effort of six people working over two weeks to meet the requirements of the blacklist administrators. To avoid this from happening again, we are considering changing the mailing list software we currently use, as it was one of the major criticisms of the blacklist administrators. The software we use is called MailMan. It is one of the most widely used mailing list software programs in the world and therefore one of the most highly targeted programs by hackers and spammers. I apologize for any problems the mailing list outage has caused. Best Regards, Beau Barnhart.
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