Re: List is being blocked as source is SPAMmy...

Gary Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've just gone around in several circles wondering why posts to and from
> the mailing list were not being sent from/arriving at my usual address, and
> after trying to re-subscribe using my normal addresses finally resorted to
> gmail.
> 
> It seems that Linode have been put on some "drop silently" lists, and as
> pyropus.ca (96.126.125.117) is a Linode address, well...

It's not just Linode addresses; small mail service operators of all types are
constantly dealing with this crap from the big providers (Gmail, Outlook/13
other names MS has for it, Yahoo, etc).  They impose draconian filtering and
change their rules and setups constantly, all of which is trade secret so the
rest of us are left guessing as to how to maximize our "deliverability" to
those services.  It's bad enough for private mail, it's ten times worse when
you're running mailing lists.

Email used to be *about* "deliverability".  You had it by default.  Now Gmail
goes out of its way to make life difficult for everyone else -- imagine that,
it drives people to use Gmail.

I've had my Linode for almost 20 years. and in that time my machine has never
sent a single spam message.  And yet they still decide to make life difficult
for me.

There's not a lot I (or other small providers) can do about this.

Charles
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