209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

Sun Sep 25 02:20:24 UTC 2005

> Bellsouth basically told me they were blocking Pair Networks because
> the percentage of spam vs non-spam is around 75 - 80%. They say
> they are communicating with them on this. Supposedly there was a
> conference telephone call this past Thursday 09-22-2005. BS says
> they must reduce this spam amount for the block to be removed.
> 
> Pair seems to think it is mostly domain customers forwarding their
> mailboxes to their BS dot Net email accounts.

Yes, this is quite clearly the case; there are dozens of mutual customers
who have forwarding rules setup.  We are not generating Spam to send to
Bellsouth; it's coming from somewhere else and then being forwarded.

I imagine that at some time in the future, forwarding e-mail might become
impractical, if receiving systems insist on parsing it as originated or
relayed Spam.

> This the first I've heard of BS having a 50/5 threshold limit.

Bellsouth has given us no statistics, no logs, no headers, not even a
timeframe for their vague claims.  We can clearly see from our side that we
are not generating nor relaying Spam.  But our customers can no longer
choose to forward their e-mail to Bellsouth.  It seems that Bellsouth is
restricting its customers.

Kevin