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Re: Help: How to tell if a Hosting provider is being blocked for

Jerry Stuckle

2006-08-31, 6:52 pm

David wrote:
> Is there any way to see if a hosting provider 's IPs are being
> blocked for SPAM? Eg. you may not wish to buy service from the co. if
> you can not send emails from your site!
>
> Thanks

Hosting providers are not blocked. It's the receiving system which
blocks email.

There are some block lists out there which receiving systems can
subscribe to. These are listed by IP address and are quite dynamic.
Whether or not a particular IP is listed now has no bearing on whether
it will be listed tomorrow.

And just because someone is listed doesn't mean they are a bad host.
They might have gotten a spammer on their system and were blacklisted
before they could get rid of him. But even if this happened - tomorrow
they'll probably be off the blacklists.

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David Cary Hart

2006-08-31, 11:04 pm

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:33:30 -0500, David <dm_fw@sbcglobal.net>
opined:
> Is there any way to see if a hosting provider 's IPs are being
> blocked for SPAM? Eg. you may not wish to buy service from the co.
> if you can not send emails from your site!
>
> Thanks

We have a multi-rbl check or you can try dnsstuff.com

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