[Info-vax] What is the correct way to contact VSI?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qrh5sh$81s$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> >> I notice that if checking "theberrymans.com" on an online blacklist
> >> service, it gets hits in 4 lists. Dont know if it is significant...
> >
> > Probably.  Be happy they didn't drop the SMTP connection, preventing the 
> > email from being delivered at all.
> >
> 
> No, dropping the connection with a reject status is _exactly_ what
> should have happened, especially if it was a blacklisting issue,
> so that Mark would have been told immediately his email had not been
> delivered instead of him having to wonder if anyone at VSI was ever
> going to get back to him.

In the old days, one could do that.  These days, that reaction can be, 
and is, intentionally provoked with a faked sender in order to produce 
backscatter spam.  So, to avoid spam, many people just drop the 
connection with no message if it comes from an address in an RBL.