MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Larson
For the last couple of days all MacGroup list traffic to InsightBB addresses has been blocked. Apparently, they subscribe to a spam blacklisting service that's got the University of Louisville down as a spam source. Here is an example of the error messages I'm getting for each InsightBB subscri

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Brian O'Neal
I have not seen any of my own posts show up on the list, but others say that they are getting them. I have noticed a decrease in the number of posts, but thought nothing of it. If I am an insightbb subscriber, should I notice that my posts are not getting to the listserver, or that I am not r

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Larson
On Feb 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > If I am an insightbb subscriber, should I notice that my posts are > not getting to the listserver, or that I am not receiving posts posts > due to insights blacklist? Or both? It looks to me like everything from UofL being bounced by Insight.

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Rob Kersting
You don't mean some kid with a college email account actually abused it, do you? I'm shocked! Shocked do you hear Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > >> If I am an insightbb subscriber, should I notice that my posts are >> not getting to the listserver

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Larson
On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Rob Kersting exclaimed: > You don't mean some kid with a college email account actually abused > it, do you? > > I'm shocked! Shocked do you hear It should be harder than that to blacklist an entire domain with probably something around 35,000 email addresses. Bu

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread B.Eric Bradley
My employer and I went through a miserable series of similar events when a third-party reseller for BellSouth suggested that we upgrade our DSL service. Upon installing a higher-speed DSL line into the building (which had the effect of frying our DSL router since the new connection was in rever

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Larson
On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:27 PM, B.Eric Bradley advised: > My best advice would be twofold: if you can find out from where > Insight's getting its blacklist service (there are two or three > primary sources out there, I'll try to dig up their locations from my > old notes), see if you can find out f

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Rising
On Feb 8, 2005, at 14:52, Lee Larson wrote: > For the last couple of days all MacGroup list traffic to InsightBB > addresses has been blocked. Apparently, they subscribe to a spam > blacklisting service that's got the University of Louisville down as a > spam source. Here is an example of the e

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Rex Baldazo
ner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Rising Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:57 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb On Feb 8, 2005, at 14:52, Lee Larson wrote: > For the last couple of days all MacGroup list tr

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Rising
On Feb 8, 2005, at 17:00, Rex Baldazo wrote: > That should be easier to fix than Insightbb was. ATT probably has or > will at some point want to bid on UofL's network business. They > wouldn't won't want to piss off a potential big customer like that. Well, it was blocking mail for several days

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Lee Larson
On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > att.net has also blocked UofL as a spam host. Gotta love IT. There's more than a coincidence there. ATT already supplies a lot (all??) of the network plumbing for Insight. Do a dig insightbb.com and watch all the ATT name servers pop up. Their b

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Rising
On Feb 8, 2005, at 17:25, Lee Larson wrote: > On Feb 8, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > >> att.net has also blocked UofL as a spam host. Gotta love IT. > > There's more than a coincidence there. ATT already supplies a lot > (all??) of the network plumbing for Insight. Do a > > dig insightb

MacGroup: Black Hole at Insightbb

2005-02-09 Thread John Stone
Ya, We get our service from ATT and ATT runs our email servers(though that is going to change soon!) Whom ever runs the UofL mail server needs to contact rbl at abuse-att.net , and the mail server dudes will contact them and they can work out their differences so email can start flowing again.