[Gllug] Tiscali broadband

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Nov 12 01:12:17 UTC 2007


On Tuesday, 6 Nov 2007, Anthony Newman wrote:
>This is why ISPs provide mail relays; it's almost not worth bothering 
>trying to send SMTP mail from end users' systems if you really want it 
>to arrive given the widespread use of spam countermeasures, specifically 
>DNS blacklists.

Although, frankly, there's not a lot of point in trying to use
Tiscali's mail relays either.

I exaggerate - somewhat - but they're on a fair number of blacklists
and they seem to have no intention of stemming the tide of outgoing
spam.

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