Comcast has their own blacklist, I do not know how they arrive at what
is spam and what is
not, in my experience, it is questionable. Your hosting company is the
one that is blacklisted.
This can be effecting many or just effecting you, it depends on whether
they assign individual
ip number to each web host or do naming. In the event of naming, it can
effect everyone
they host for. Your hosting company (the one that is actually
responsible for the net block
you are assigned will have to resolve this with comcast), alternatively
you can probably request
it's removal at the following url, there should be instructions at the URL.
http://www.comcast.net/help/faq/index.jsp?faq=SecurityMail_Policy18626
use this IP '66.235.211.53 ' which is what your host gives your website.
If you do a search on 'blacklist' and comcast, you will get pages full
of their blacklisting anomalies.
Also, just as a preventative, I do not know if you use any mass mailers
advertising, but if you
do, this can cause blacklisting. If you do the best way to avoid
blacklisting if you do this is to use
as server side mailing list with subscribe/unsubscribe options. The
spam situation from an ISP
standpoint is getting ever worse to keep its subscriber's email
flowing. AOL is similar, they
decide which mail is spam by the number of times it's customer's put the
same sources of
email in their spam folder, if it appears at about a rate of 5%, it's
blacklist time.
What does this mean, it means whoever you are sending email to, even
though in your eyes,
it may be legitimate, if they decide they don't want to receive it, they
can hit the AOL spam button
and they have officially dubbed your email spam and the counter starts.
This is where the serverside email lists help but do not eliminate this,
depends if the receiver
is will to click on the url for your unsubscribe message. Another
(though less liked by most),
is to only send email that is text, i.e. no images, no html. This will
maximize the probably
that your mail won't be interpeted as spam.
Hope this helps.
Tom Myers wrote:
To whom it may concern.
I need your help. I run a legitimate business ( 27 years ) of
Search and Placement in the electronic industry. As you can see for
the text below I am unable to contact people about the jobs that they
want to interview for.
How do I get unlisted from the Spamassassin "black list"? Every
letter I send out is an individual letter not a spam or junk mail. I
view resumes on Hot Jobs. I pay for this service. People post their
resumes so that a recruiter like myself will contact them with the
hope of finding work. By being blocked from contacting that person
causes Spamassassin to harm both of us. In addition, several clients
have not been able to receive emails from me. These clients are
fortune 500 manufactures that have written agreements with our firm to
arrange legitimate interviews for valid jobs.
Can you help me get delisted ?
Sincerely.
Tom Myers - President - 310-317-6113
www.electroniccareers.com
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Subject: Raul resume request
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:40:01 -0700
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www.electroniccareers.com
1-310-317-6113
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