Tiscali

Hi,

My sister lives in Germany and uses an internet account served by Tiscali.
She has recently just found that you are blocking her attempts to email us
here in Houston. Apparently this has something to do with too much spam from
accounts served by this provider. Can you tell me if this is true? What is
being done about this? When can I expect her to be able to email me?

Thanks,

Heide Loos

 

Heide,
Thanks for writing concerning your problems with receiving e-mail from
your sister.
We were blocking certain senders because we believed them to be giving
aid and comfort to Saddam. Now that he has been captured, there will
be no further need for us to block your sister's messages.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we wish a jolly holiday season!
Sat hello to Karl and tell him we miss his presence at the closet
queens meetings on Thursday nights.
Hope he'll come around again soon.

Harrison - The New Handicapper General, Tiscali Internet

 

This international newsgroup is not your ISP. Please contact them!
(worldnet.att.net)

If you used shell.com to munge your address, change it! That's a valid
domain!

 

https://mailus.help.att.net/BridgePage

 

It's probably not going to make a lot of difference either way - Tiscali are
well known spammers, and AT&T are in SPEWS:

http://www.spews.org/html/S586.html

and on the Spamhaus BL:

http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso

and since the _only_ way off the SPEWS list is to nuke the spammers, and since
AT&T is pink as well as black-hat, I expect the listing is only going to expand,
not decrease.

Both are considered block-on-sight by a LOT of people - in a few cases, some
have gone as far as to block AT&T's entire /8.

 

I kind of doubt that either AT&T or Tiscali is going to tell them the whole
truth about what's going on.

"Rule #1 applies."

 

Oh goody!!

I'll have to choose someone else if want dsl? Bleagh!

 

Yes. That, or get those who whose hosts use the SPEWS list to whitelist you, or
find a different way/place to send your e-mail through.

The chances of the second happening are not too good. AT&T's been a sewer long
enough that most responsible admins refuse to deal with them. Personally, I vote
for blocking the /8. I've never seen anything but spam and wormspew from them.

Searched Groups for att.net group:news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. Results
1 - 100 of about 34,600. Search took 2.41 seconds.

Here's another listing:

http://www.spews.org/html/S1677.html

"Pink is not a good color, online."

 

Thanks for the info! MC!

 

Thanks. I still haven't loosened the huskers. Still thinking about.

 

Mmm. Is this all AT&T crap?

 

You wouldn't regret it.

"I know I haven't."

 

1, 12.129.204.99, northplainsllc.com
1, 12.129.204.75, smilepop.com
1, 12.129.204.158, euniverse.com
1, 12.129.204.183, increaseyourhealth.com
1, 12.129.204.98, mail.increaseyourhealth.com
1, 12.129.205.221, ns1.euniverse.com
1, 12.129.205.144, i.laih.com
1, 12.129.205.222, ns3.smilepop.com / ns3.euniverse.com
1, 12.129.204.0/23, euniverse.com (ATT)
1, 12.129.207.250, mail.optingroupllc.com
1, 12.129.207.251, mail2451.optingroupllc.com
2, 12.129.248.235, mail.euniverse.com (ATT)
1, 12.129.207.0/23, euniverse.com (ATT)

and the euniverse listing was expanded, IIRC.

Spamhaus. Pure and simple.

 

Uh. I need some anti-bacterial soap, Phew.

 

Oh, there are more listings.

Many, many more.

http://tinyurl.com/zkws

" I think I'll go shower in Quatracide, now."

 

Oh, not to worry, I trust ya. <g>