On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 06:59:48AM +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:31:33 -0800, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
| I've heard in the past 2 weeks from two people who discovered that | their mail server settings resulted in pglaf.org bouncing their | messages to gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org (not necessarily through fault of | their own). | | If you've sent messages to pglaf.org, but are not sure if they got | through, you might want to send a test message or check the list | archives (http://lists.pglaf.org). You can set your own list settings | to get your own messages, and/or an acknowledgement message. | | The setting we use is to enforce the standard that mail servers (aka | MTAs) must have reverse DNS entries (also known as PTRs). Several of | the big ISPs, such as AOL, enforce this rule. Others don't. Mail | from addresses with no corresponding PTR is (at pglaf.org) well over | 99.9% likely to be spam. Over 10,000 such messages are blocked | per week on the pglaf.org server using this single rule. | | The postfix server at pglaf.org has had this setting since the spring, | and while I'm sure it has bounced some legitimate messages, it's only | recently that anyone has brought any false positives to my attention. | -- Greg
I am blocked and use BTConnect, BT is one of the largest ISPs in the UK
You don't seem to be blocked. Your message arrived. Do you have bounced messages? If so, please send them and I'll try to diagnose. -- gbn