On Wed February 22 2006 15:28, Matt Nuzum wrote:
>
> Well, one mistake I made when deciding on a data center was to failing
> to see if their service is used by spammers. When I signed up with
> "Neutelligent" in the Tampa Bay are of Florida, USA I didn't check
> this. At the time our servers were installed, several IP blocks were
> black listed and our users could not send e-mail to some domains (such
> as AOL). Fortunately, they had already enacted a policy to get abusers
> off of their network and after a few months the IP Blocks were removed
> from the DNSbl.
>
> Anytime I consider a host in the future, I'm going to ask what their
> policy on spammers is and check the dns black lists to see if they're
> listed.
>
I wrote a tool for that purpose (among others), see:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamviz/
Requires that your system have bash and dig installed. GraphViz is optional.
Mike
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Received on Wed Feb 22 21:39:52 2006