Re: SORBS email

2013-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
On October 21, 2013 at 08:58 r.engehau...@gmail.com (Roy) wrote: I sent an email to SORBS some time ago and I received this yesterday Reason: unable to deliver this message after 135 days Got to admit that SORBS email servers aren't timely but they are persistent. SORBS only

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-07 Thread Mark Foster
On 07/04/12 05:11, David Miller wrote: RBLs don't block emails. Operators of mail servers who use RBLs block emails (in part) based on information from RBLs. If only one could convince end-users of this fact. More often than not, end-user simply sees the company that they pay to provide

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-07 Thread Randy Bush
i dont think anyone would miss sorbs if it was gone, dare i say it not even a single person while i would not dispute what you think you think, i think you are thinking quite incorrectly randy

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:48 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: 'Sam Oduor'; Chris Conn; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: SORBS?! This is often the only way to get peoples attention and get action. Providers dont care about individual /32's and will let them sit around and spew nigerian scams and pill

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:31:47 -0400, Drew Weaver said: That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have Senderbase set a poor reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. If it was industry-wide

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. It turns into a customer service issue for most service providers. Eh, guess they'll just have to

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:54 , Brielle Bruns wrote: On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. It turns into a customer service issue for most service

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 9:02 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: No, they don't. Many DNSBLs use self-service tools. Someone has to write the tool, but the rest is automated. Total cost is power space, which is frequently donated (I have personally donated some myself to DNSBLs I thought were well run). Proxy

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread George Herbert
This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and before j...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your attitude is worrying. The I am not

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 9:49 AM, George Herbert wrote: This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and befor...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A week? You may have the right to list them and

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:55:35 -0400, Drew Weaver said: That is again, not true. Senderbase's listings don't correlate to any public information so it's pretty much impossible to pro-actively protect ourselves from having our IPs set to poor. You missed the point - if it was industry standard

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have Senderbase set a poor reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. I think the

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
Weaver Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have Senderbase set a poor

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread David Miller
On 4/6/2012 12:35 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider resulted in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, which is after all basically a list of people who don't take action when notified...

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Drew Weaver drew.wea...@thenap.com wrote: So you're suggesting that hosting companies do what? I believe I'm suggesting you use SORBS as your canary in the coal mine and otherwise ignore them. But if you're asking what hosting companies could do to proactively

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Ever wonder why it takes time for DNSbl's to process removals, sometimes very long periods? Well, someone's gotta pay for that time the removal person does it (and I have yet to see a dime of compensation for the time I spend). No, they don't.

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Landon Stewart wrote: If the purpose of blacklist is to block spam for recipients using that blacklist then a /32 works. If the purpose of a blacklist is to annoy providers then a /24 works. The most reputable and useful blacklists IMHO are Spamhaus and Spamcop - they

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: But they will care about a /24. I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? It's a

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jimmy Hess wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider resulted in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, which is after all basically a list of people who don't take

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brielle Bruns wrote: Unfortunately, the apathy of providers, backbones, and network operators in general have created an environment that the almighty buck rules everything. I totally agree with pretty much everything in this email. I also agree that blocking whole /24 or bigger when spam

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Brielle Bruns wrote: to come from such a block is more often than not a necessity. It's very unlikely to see 1 abuser in between an otherwise perfectly behaving network neighbourhood. That's kind of vague to say it's

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread chris
i dont think anyone would miss sorbs if it was gone, dare i say it not even a single person On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Brielle Bruns wrote: to come from such a block is more

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:48:44 -0500, Jimmy Hess said: That's kind of vague to say it's unlikely to see 1 abuser. What is the probability that more IPs in the same /24 are likely to harbor abusers, given that you have received abuse from one IP? It's similar to pirhanas or cockroaches -

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Sam Oduor
Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from sorbs after resolving the problem amicably. Sorbs responded well on time. *Your request appear to have been resolved. If you have

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Drew Weaver
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:56 AM To: Chris Conn Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from sorbs after resolving

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread goemon
] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:56 AM To: Chris Conn Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: SORBS?! Some of the IP's I manage got blacklisted and its true they were spamming and Sorbs had a very valid reason for blacklisting them. I got this response response from sorbs after resolving the problem

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: But they will care about a /24. I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? Nick

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-05 Thread PC
That's probably a better idea. I moved into a /24 ip block that was SWIPed to me that they reported was dynamic cable/DSL users (no spam history, mind you). Didn't matter, I couldn't send e-mail. When trying to get it delisted I had a TTL on the zone that was incompatible with their standards

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Matt Kelly
Good luck. Last time we heard back from them they were trying to extort us for $18,000 to have a huge block of Ips removed. They were listed from the day we received them from arin. After that we gave up on SORBS. On 4/4/12 3:53 PM, Chris Conn cc...@b2b2c.ca wrote: Hello, Is anyone from

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Graydon
They're still functional, still used by companies but I wouldn't make any observation on them running 'well'. A friend's office IP range got blocked and unblocked recently by them so they do seem to remove entries. Beyond that on NANOG you're pretty much into light blue touch paper and

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 12:53, Chris Conn cc...@b2b2c.ca wrote: Hello, Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for a spam incident from over a year ago. The last spam date is 03/05/2011 according to their

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Mike Andrews
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Landon Stewart wrote: On 4 April 2012 12:53, Chris Conn cc...@b2b2c.ca wrote: Hello, Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for a spam incident from

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Landon Stewart wrote: I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders to get their attention. Yeah you're free to do that, as well as complain about it and SORBS in turn is free to put whatever the hell they feel like on their block lists and not remove it at all,

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Alain Hebert
Hi, We had an issue with one of our old subnets which was used as a pool for dynamic dial-up in the past, which we now use for virtual hosting. It took a few me a few hours but I was able to get it removed from the DUHL list. ( And a few walk around the block to calm me down

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 14:21, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Landon Stewart wrote: I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders to get their attention. Yeah you're free to do that, as well as complain about it and SORBS in turn is free to put whatever the

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Landon Stewart
On 4 April 2012 14:27, Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net wrote: As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/which use the same username/password as https://www.us.sorbs.net. You can follow up there with your ticket #, if their robot is being a bit too fascist. (

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Chris Conn
On 2012-04-04 17:33: Hi, Actually knowing Chris, and his outfit, that 18k request seems unwarranted :( As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/ which use the same username/password as https://www.us.sorbs.net. You can follow up there with your

Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Brian R. Watters
Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com Subject: Re: SORBS contact Message-Id: 8beae4f1-acd0-4408-9f75-264aff04d788@brw-abs-office Recipient: ge...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: gerno.rein...@trinity.edu ---BeginMessage--- Nope .. just like pain and suffering :( - Original Message

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Brian R. Watters
Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com Subject: Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Message-Id: 1d95a7a9-8340-45e7-b803-03f1827326e1@brw-abs-office Recipient: ge...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: gerno.rein...@trinity.edu ---BeginMessage--- Thanks .. their attempts to reach us are blocked via our

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-08-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:17:02 CDT, trinity.edu's mailer, *not* Brian R. Watters said: Sender: brwatt...@absfoc.com Subject: Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact Message-Id: 1d95a7a9-8340-45e7-b803-03f1827326e1@brw-abs-office Recipient: ge...@trinity.edu.test-google-a.com, Forwarded: gerno.rein

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:18:17 EDT, William Herrin said: 2. I assume the subscription request came from a web page because if it was from an email request you received then you ignored my SPF records when generating the confirmation request. That was OK in 2001 but in 2011 you ought not be

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:32 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: That sort of shoots your If Woody had gone straight to the SPF record, none of this would have happened claim. My WHAT claim? You asked if I wanted mailing list confirmation requests that arrive at my mail server to have a non-null

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:36:22 EDT, William Herrin said: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:32 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: That sort of shoots your If Woody had gone straight to the SPF record, none of this would have happened claim. My WHAT claim? What you said: 2. I assume the subscription

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:45:52AM -0400, Dan Collins wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Emailing random non-existent email addresses (such as webmas...@sorbs.net) will earn you a listing... webmaster@* isn't random, it's a fairly standard

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Dan Collins wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Emailing random non-existent email addresses (such as webmas...@sorbs.net) will earn you a listing... webmaster@* isn't random, it's a fairly standard way to reach the administrator of a

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:45:52AM -0400, Dan Collins wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Emailing random non-existent email addresses (such as webmas...@sorbs.net) will earn you a listing... webmaster@*

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Paul Graydon wrote: It's pretty much customer service 101 to ensure that you keep your communications as neutral and polite as possible, regardless of how frustrated or vilified you feel by the person you're supporting, and regardless of how tired you are of accusatory tickets. Being snarky

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:48:44 EDT, William Herrin said: Correction: It's a standard way to denote that this mail is a bounce report. It's *not* just bounce reports (in particular, DSNs and MDNs are not non-delivery (bounce)

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:52:50 +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: reference to bounce messages and mailing lists.) The registration email has a null return path because people will put in forged addresses and we don't want them to do that in the first place, and if they do it, we certainly don't

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Ken Chase
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to adopt standards that are part of proposed RFC's, not official by any

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:46:13 EDT, William Herrin said: Point taken. Bounce reports, temporary failure reports and successful delivery reports. Nevertheless, it still isn't for other programmatically generated mail. In fact, the next paragraph in RFC 5321 4.5.5 says: All other types of

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to adopt standards that are part of proposed RFC's,

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.netwrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:45:52AM -0400, Dan Collins wrote: [snip] later in the document, Webmaster@ is not in the required list. As per my previous email, the webservers (all of them)

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Paul Graydon
On 7/30/2011 2:33 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Ken Chase wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net mailto:matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:45:52AM -0400, Dan Collins wrote: [snip] later in the document, Webmaster@ is not in the required list.

RE: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-30 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
A valid and well put argument. I don't know what we do with stuff to webmaster@ however I do know that it is possible that messages to it will go into the spamtrap system. (the spamtrap system has multiple entry points, and a mail going in does not guarentee a listing, but it is likely,

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:16:23 PDT, Brian R. Watters said: Thanks .. their attempts to reach us are blocked via our Barrcacuda's due to the fact that they are sending with a blank FROM: and as such Barracuda thinks its SPAM Please clarify. Are they sending MAIL FROM:(syntactically

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:46 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: And you might want to fix it, since your users will never get a bounce notice from any RFC-compliant mailer - even if they *wanted* to know that their mail wasn't delivered.   is the RFC-standard way to denote this mail is a

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:48:44 EDT, William Herrin said: Correction: It's a standard way to denote that this mail is a bounce report. Correction to your correction: What the RFC actually says: 4.5.5. Messages with a Null Reverse-Path There are several types of notification messages that

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:46 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: And you might want to fix it, since your users will never get a bounce notice from any RFC-compliant mailer - even if they *wanted* to know that their mail wasn't delivered. is the RFC-standard way to

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
William Pitcock wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Brian R. Watters brwatt...@absfoc.com wrote: We are looking for a SORBS contact as their web site and registration process is less than friendly if somehow you get listed by them. As I recall it, you can manually

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 29/07/2011 22:55, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Friendly or non friendly response is usually gaugable in advance by the tone of the initial email. Which is usually gaugeable in advance by the tone of the customer complaints that precipitated contact with SORBS in the first place. Email is such a

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Paul Graydon
On 07/29/2011 12:24 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 29/07/2011 22:55, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Friendly or non friendly response is usually gaugable in advance by the tone of the initial email. Which is usually gaugeable in advance by the tone of the customer complaints that precipitated contact

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Landon Stewart
On 28 July 2011 14:16, Brian R. Watters brwatt...@absfoc.com wrote: Thanks .. their attempts to reach us are blocked via our Barrcacuda's due to the fact that they are sending with a blank FROM: and as such Barracuda thinks its SPAM .. just to darn funny .. I have whitelisted their domain so

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Adam Atkinson
Nick Hilliard wrote: Email is such a lousy medium for this. We're all much more decent people in person than over snarky emails. Speak for yourself!

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Landon Stewart wrote: On 28 July 2011 14:16, Brian R. Watters brwatt...@absfoc.com wrote: Thanks .. their attempts to reach us are blocked via our Barrcacuda's due to the fact that they are sending with a blank FROM: and as such Barracuda thinks its SPAM .. just to darn funny .. I have

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-29 Thread Dan Collins
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Emailing random non-existent email addresses (such as webmas...@sorbs.net) will earn you a listing... webmaster@* isn't random, it's a fairly standard way to reach the administrator of a service. A failure to support

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:31:13 PDT, Brian R. Watters said: We are looking for a SORBS contact as their web site and registration process is less than friendly if somehow you get listed by them. You're new here, aren't you? :) (Sorry, couldn't resist. Previous discussion on NANOG:

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Dorn Hetzel
You want to speak to SORBS? Good luck with that. Unless you are Chuck Norris; Chuck Norris can speak with SORBS anytime he wants :) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.netwrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Brian R. Watters brwatt...@absfoc.com

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread PC
Last time I went through this... first it was they didn't like my RDNS, so I added Static to it. Then it was my ISP didn't SWIP the record properly, they fixed this. Then after that they said my DNS TTL was too low. The final straw was the DNS TTL, we used it for failover to accommodate a

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Brian R. Watters
brwatt...@absfoc.com, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:47:56 PM Subject: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact You want to speak to SORBS? Good luck with that. Unless you are Chuck Norris; Chuck Norris can speak with SORBS anytime he wants :) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:50 PM, William Pitcock

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Brian R. Watters
Nope .. just like pain and suffering :( - Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu To: Brian R. Watters brwatt...@absfoc.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:44:29 PM Subject: Re: SORBS contact On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:31:13 PDT, Brian R

Re: SORBS contact

2011-07-28 Thread Barry Shein
He's the most interesting man in the world...SORBS is on HIS list and can't get off. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool Die|

Re: SORBs Human

2011-06-15 Thread Ken Chase
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:26:19PM +, Nathan Eisenberg said: Could a human being from SORBs please contact me off-list? Your robot isn't functional, and you are listing one of our ARIN allocations as dynamic, when it is not. (Yes, I know that 'no one uses' SORBs. Customers don't

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-23 Thread Alexander Maassen
mailop list? I run a dnsbl myself (dronebl to be exact), call me dumb or whatever, but never heard about that list. In fact, I am also working on granting AS admins to be able to list entries in their ranges etc, so if you are listed in whois as administrator of an AS and you want access to

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Conn
Hello, Thank you to all that answered, all helpful info. Surprisingly minutes after my Nanog post, a couple of my tickets saw action and the /24 was finally removed a short while later. Thanks again, Chris

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Graydon
On 03/22/2011 09:07 AM, Chris Conn wrote: Hello, Thank you to all that answered, all helpful info. Surprisingly minutes after my Nanog post, a couple of my tickets saw action and the /24 was finally removed a short while later. Thanks again, Chris Woah... *collapses on the floor in

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Mike
On 03/22/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011 09:07 AM, Chris Conn wrote: Hello, Thank you to all that answered, all helpful info. Surprisingly minutes after my Nanog post, a couple of my tickets saw action and the /24 was finally removed a short while later. Thanks again, Chris

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Mike wrote: On 03/22/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011 09:07 AM, Chris Conn wrote: Hello, Thank you to all that answered, all helpful info. Surprisingly minutes after my Nanog post, a couple of my tickets saw action and the /24 was finally

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Franck Martin
+1 They know the challenges, aware of the issues and I have seen some progress. - Original Message - From: Steve Atkins st...@blighty.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 9:56:20 AM Subject: Re: SORBS contact? On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Mike wrote: On 03/22/2011

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Graydon
karma for them to get past. - Original Message - From: Steve Atkinsst...@blighty.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 9:56:20 AM Subject: Re: SORBS contact? On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Mike wrote: On 03/22/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011 09:07

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Mike
On 03/22/2011 03:58 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011 12:24 PM, Franck Martin wrote: +1 They know the challenges, aware of the issues and I have seen some progress. I'm glad to hear that, one less extortion racket on the 'net is no bad thing. They might do better by rebranding though.

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread TR Shaw
On Mar 22, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Mike wrote: On 03/22/2011 03:58 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011 12:24 PM, Franck Martin wrote: +1 They know the challenges, aware of the issues and I have seen some progress. I'm glad to hear that, one less extortion racket on the 'net is no bad

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-22 Thread Rich Kulawiec
For future reference: you're much more likely to elicit a useful response by using the mailop list, since you'll be addressing a mixed audience of mail system operators, DNSBL operators, software authors, etc., all of whom are focused on mail and not network operations. ---rsk

Re: SORBS contact?

2011-03-21 Thread Ken Chase
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:31:21PM -0400, TR Shaw said: One might wonder about the quality of the mail admins that rely on SORBS You might try http://www.au.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/support One might also do other things that are to no avail, one of such things is to read this and

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
telmn...@757.org wrote: Did SORBS really cause you that much pain? Yes. We purchased colo space for some systems that didn't need high class of service (mostly development systems.) The IP space in a former lifetime was a dialup pool for analog modems. We of course changed the reverse DNS

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Ronald Cotoni
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: telmn...@757.org wrote: Did SORBS really cause you that much pain? Yes. We purchased colo space for some systems that didn't need high class of service (mostly development systems.) The IP space in a former lifetime

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: Anyone got some pointers on how to get off SORBS' Dynamic IP lists? We've followed their RFC proposed static reverse DNS assignment naming and all elements of their FAQ. We are not spammers. The /24 in question isnt listed on any RBLs except SORBS DUL. We've submitted

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ronald Cotoni wrote: At the same time, I never hear this about spamhaus or outblaze. Go figure :( Maybe your system is too confusing and you might want to take a survey and revamp it to something a bit more functional. I have never heard it about Outblaze, but I have heard at least we

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: I'm now marking this request as 'answered' as I think there's nothing more for me to do. If you feel otherwise, please reply to this message to re-open your ticket. In particular, if you change your rDNS information.

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Ken Chase
Fair enough, but it wasnt just me. I have the customer who submitted his own tickets as well, as well as NAC.net who has admins (an email admin, actually), who seems to know his way around RBLs and the current state/reputation/happenings in the spam/RBL/mail world. Customer has posted these

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Hamilton
On 15/01/2010 16:14, William Herrin wrote: Is it bad English? Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. It's perfectly clear. Can anyone else give better wording that might result in less of an issue? Please reply to this message to reopen your ticket and escalate your case to a live human

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:06:18PM +0100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: The common a reoccurring issue is the response by the robot has given the next logical step to progress any delisting request (as has been stated here recently, in another thread).. and the requester has

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, William Hamilton b...@edisys.co.uk wrote: Is it bad English?  Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. Try as I might I really can't see what is not clear here... It isn't clear that there's a way to reach a human being at sorbs other than complaining

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread paul
Michelle, Thanks for your email. Please specifically look at ticket 260695. I created the ticket on January 5th at about 1:30EST. Immediately I got my response from the robot. I replied a few minutes later with: 67.196.137.188/32 TTL is right. PTR is right. From your email, it is my

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: Fair enough, but it wasnt just me. I have the customer who submitted his own tickets as well, as well as NAC.net who has admins (an email admin, actually), who seems to know his way around RBLs and the current state/reputation/happenings in the spam/RBL/mail world. Customer

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 1/15/2010 10:26 AM, William Hamilton wrote: On 15/01/2010 16:14, William Herrin wrote: Is it bad English? Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. It's perfectly clear. Can anyone else give better wording that might result in less of an issue? Please reply to this message to reopen your

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