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From: micheal@greatguy.com (Micheal)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: [Fwd: http://spews.org/html/S854.html]
Date: 8 Dec 2001 07:34:03 -0800
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Joe Jared  wrote in message news:<3C11243E.9F6BFC9B@osirusoft.com>...
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> From: "Gargiulo Michael (NMP/Dallas)" 
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> 
> Hello Joe,
> 
> My IP address 205.178.180.122 has somehow been associated with
> globalvend.net and the spam mentioned on your site. 205.178.180.122
> belongs to my domain greatguy.com. Greatguy.com is hosted on a shared
> web server at SBC / webhosting.com as is globalvend.net.
> 
> I loath spam and have nothing to do with it. Would you kindly remove my
> IP from your list? I have been without e-mail for nearly 3 days and I
> have spent nearly 12 hours day trying to figure out why.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Micheal Gargiulo
> 
> PS... I can't send you mail from my domain.... Because of your block my
> ISP won't let me send anything!!!!!!!
> 
> I guess I am guilty without a trial !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've further messaged abuse@webhosting.com (SBC) and talked with their
tech support about this problem. So far NOTHING. I guess I am
"collateral damage" in the war on spam. Next I'm going to try to get
my ISP, Prodigy, to ignore my IP that is on the spews list. I suspect
that it will take me many hours and lots of run-around before I can
contact someone at Prodigy (also an SBC company) who knows anything
about this. *sigh*

When will my e-mail work again?

Micheal



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From: Sam 
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Pacbell has blacklisted itself.
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If this wasn't too geek-y, I would've sent this to Chuck Shepherd's "News 
Of The Weird" column.

That's right.  I refused to initially believe some information that I've
come across that suggested this possibility, but I don't think there's any
doubt anymore.  This just seemed to be too bizarre to be true, but my
remaining doubts are quickly vanishing...

It doesn't look that the entire Borg is affected.  It looks like some
departments in Pacbell use Joe Jared's consolidated spam list, and some
time within the last couple of weeks Joe added blacklist.spambag.org to his
consolidated zone.

spambag.org is my personal list of spam-friendly networks whose customers
have been attacking my mailboxes, even after I complained to their network
provider many times.  See http://www.spambag.org for more information.

Right now, blacklist.spambag.org has all of Pacbell's IP address space
listed due to their refusal to shut down their cc-inc/pcmall spambags, who
are now attacking my mail servers on their daily basis.  They used to do
their spam runs twice a week, looks like they're up to once a day, now.  
But that's a story for another day.

The end result is that some Pacbell's customer support mail from their
paying customers is bouncing.

Well, you tell me what the following poor soul is struggling to tell me:

# test from---
# http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?addr=216.102.235.194
# with result shown below indicates that our mail server is blocked by
# you...our server is just
#  re-set to block relay....can you retest and assist us in remove it from
# your list so we can start sending email to pacbell.net support site?

As an aside, all the cl00bies who are piling up in my INBOX seem to believe
that they are listed because they had an open relay, which they closed, but
that's another story for another day.

The funniest part of this is that I believe that this has been going on for
at least a few weeks, and it appears that nobody at pacbell.net is even
aware of this.  If this doesn't tell you how utterly clueless, and void of
intelligent life, that place is, I don't know what would.



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