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Re: To Frank K/computer question

To: "Tab Julius" <tab@penworks.com>, "David Councill" <dcouncil@imt.net>
Subject: Re: To Frank K/computer question
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:20:33 -0400
The mail server is refusing mail. 

>><<< 553 <frankk@intap.net>... Mail from 204.212.40.2 refused, telephone +1

I did an nslookup:

Name:    cu.comp-unltd.com
Address:  204.212.40.2

and imt.net =
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    imt.net
Address:  204.212.40.2

seems to me that you have been black listed. There are several sites that 
have this info. Do a search on spam and blacklists.

Larry

(athough when I do an nslookup on autox.team.net my DNS can't find it :-)

>>>>On 10/10/00 1:14 AM so and so (Tab Julius) said. (And I quote:)

>
>One possibility is that his mailserver is rejecting mail from the 
>list.  Some spam filters that are improperly set up will not accept 
>listserv mail.  It's possible there was no filter when he signed up, but 
>one was added later by his ISP.  Another possibility is that this 
>mailserver was blackballed (banned) from sending stuff to him, either 
>perhaps due to some actual spam that crept through, some multiple message 
>problem, some off-color jokes (about cats?), or who knows what.
>
>The "user unknown" is sometimes automatically generated when a server is 
>banned.
>
>Or, he could perhaps honestly have closed that account.
>
>If you can email him directly but not through the list, that would suggest 
>the list is banned.  If no one can email him at all at that account, then 
>perhaps the account is closed.
>
>- Tab
>
>At 07:19 PM 10/9/00 -0600, David Councill wrote:
>>Funny you should mention that. I have the same problem except I get a
>>message back that says -
>>
>>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>><frankk@intap.net>
>>
>>     ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>... while talking to mail.intap.net.:
>>  >>> RCPT To:<frankk@intap.net>
>><<< 553 <frankk@intap.net>... Mail from 204.212.40.2 refused, telephone +1
>>401 276 4700 for further information
>>550 <frankk@intap.net>... User unknown
>>
>>
>>At 09:05 PM 10/9/00 -0400, Carl W French wrote:
>>
>> >Can anyone tell me why every time that I reply to Frank at his primary
>> >e-mail address (frankk@intap.net) I get it returned? I have to send stuff
>> >to his backup address that he does not check as often (hint hint Frank,
>> >many images in your AOL box).
>> >
>> >Carl French


Larry Macy
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA 19104

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