[Iowa-dx] blocked email

Hart, Holly J holly-hart@uiowa.edu
Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:03:37 -0600


Thank you for forwarding this.  This is the first sensible *and* non-conspi=
racy possible cause I've seen, and this may help quell a lot of concerns.

Some have suspected at least part of this is relaetd to the telecom immunit=
y issue, and that progressive organizations are being targeted.  Whether tr=
ue or not, it seems to be the case that progresssive organizations are targ=
eted by spammers and phishing, but maybe that's grown throuhgout the politi=
cal spectrum?    AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Comm=
unications
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307Z.shtml>

Whatever the cause,  it would be very nice to learn that this is only growi=
ng pains!

Holly

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From: iowa-dx-admin@lists.gp-us.org [iowa-dx-admin@lists.gp-us.org] On Beha=
lf Of Wendy Barth [peacenik@usa.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 4:23 AM
To: Iowa Greens Discussion List
Subject: [Iowa-dx] blocked email

The Internet commerce community has launched a strong defense against phish=
ing, which is necessary for the security of on-line banking, bill-paying, s=
hopping, etc. As a side effect, non-profit users of the Internet have been =
blind-sided by new authentification procedures  which have recently been ad=
opted, and consequently we are inadvertently being blocked as spammers. See=
 this press release for  a description of new email verification procedures=
 now being adopted:

   http://www.aotalliance.org/news/releases/AOTA-authentication.html

see also:

  https://www.senderscore.org/<https://www.senderscore.org>
  http://www.returnpath.net/<http://www.returnpath.net>
  http://www.aotalliance.org/

As part of the "Internet ecosystem" it looks like we need to do what the in=
ternet marketers are doing. I totally support efforts to block phishing - a=
s all legitimate users of the Internet should.  I believe it will be straig=
htforward for our ISP to adopt the use of these new identifiers as describe=
d in the AOTA document above. It is unfortunate that the business class fai=
led to communicate their plans with the rest of the  Internet ecosystem. Bu=
t we know how hard it is to get the public's attention these days. This is =
most likely an example growing pains as the Internet evolves to support all=
 types of speech  (including commercial speech) rather than a deliberate ma=
licious attempt to disrupt our work.

Wendy Barth
Co-Chair, Iowa Green Party

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:03:50 PM CDT
From: "Wendy Barth" <peacenik@usa.net>
To: <abuse@mediacomcc.com>
Subject: Fw: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered



Your customer, Kelley Putnam <kputman@mchsi.com> received the bounce below =
when trying to send an email to me, peacenik@usa.net. The technical support=
 staff at my email provider had this to say about the bounce:

The information you provided indicates that the sender of the email in ques=
tion is being blocked by a third-party blocklist utilized by USA.NET to red=
uce the amount of spam our customers receive.

To resolve this issue, an administrator from the sender's domain will need =
to contact http://sendersupport.senderscore.net/ directly in order to be re=
moved from this block list.

If you need further assistance regarding this issue, please reply to this m=
essage or contact us at:

800-448-4374 (Domestic)

303-876-4019 (International)

Thank you for using USA.NET!

Sincerely,

Jerry

<support@usa.net>

ref:00D36cSn.50033oIOk:ref

Neither of us are spammers, and we don't deserve to be punished. Please use=
 your considerable clout to get this straightened out as soon as possible. =
I email with several others who also use mchsi.com , this could be a big pr=
oblem.

Thank you,

Wendy Barth

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