[Info-vax] Decuserve.org - Anyone know why it's down?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <m8eii9$q75$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> >> I hope that's going to change as it will definitely affect who the 
> >> users can send email to.
> > 
> > Why do you say that?
> 
> Because that's the way that some common spam filtering works with 
> SpamAssassin and various other tools.  If the forward and reverse DNS 
> translations for the peer mail server don't match, then the local box --- 
> not the mail server with the bad DNS --- can consider the remote box --- 
> the mail server with the mismatched DNS --- to be a spam engine, and drop 
> the messages.

>From which I conclude that no email I have sent goes through such 
SpamAssassin stuff.