RE: Website link for 207.173.187.220

Bert,

I did a search on my email server for all messages going to my
postmaster (either as a recipient or sender) account.  There were none
from dsbl.org.

Other than waiting the week to do this removal process again, is there
anyway I can expedite this?

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Driehuis [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 2:28 PM
To: Leisher, Doug
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 207.173.187.220

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On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Leisher, Doug wrote:

> Thanks for your input Bert.  I used the ORDB.org site to test for open
> relays as I've heard that's pretty good.

ORDB is a very good service. Unfortunately, the way it operates means 
that it is extremely conservative, which results in at least half the 
open relays and almost all open proxies flying under ORDB's radar. 
That's not a criticism of ORDB; their conservatism makes them acceptable

to a different audience than DSBL's typical large-site postmasters.

> I was able to send an email to my postmaster account via an outside
> email address.  I then saw that in my postmaster inbox and was able to
> open it and reply to it.  So, if DSBL did send a message to my
> postmaster account, I don't know why it appears to be held up.  I also
> looked at my exchange queues and there aren't any for dsbl.org.  If my
> postmaster account would have received such a message and then replied
> to it, there would be an exchange queue for its delivery.

I can't look into your system, and neither can I see more of DSBL's than

you can, but in my experience, when the listing page says it was 
delivered, it was delivered. Most commonly, when message disappear, they

get deleted by a misguided spam filter. Many authors of anti-spam tools 
wilfully disregard an important invariant underlying e-mail delivery: 
one should either reject, or accept and deliver, a message (that 
delivery can be to a quaranteen folder, that's okay; deleting it isn't).

Your logs really should allow you to find out what happened.