Hello, I use Ozemail (= iiNet) and recently all email sent to anybody with an OptusNet address was NOT getting through and was coming back undeliverable with 'explanations' as in the below example about why the mail was undeliverable. I think the key is "listed in multi.surbl.org" I suspect his means that OptusNet is using one of the mickey mouse or cowboy blacklisters or self-appointed "Sherrifs" of the internet .. and they decided iiNet is spam. This, also, is not the first time such spurious and very annoying blacklisting has happened. The two ISPs worst for this (for blacklisting other ISPs' outgoing servers), in my experience, have been Bigpond and Optus. Regards, John (in Sydney) """"""""" The following message to <petermead@optusnet.com.au> was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.7.1 URL(s) listed in multi.surbl.org: 104.175.85.209' Final-Recipient: rfc822;petermead@optusnet.com.au Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure) Remote-MTA: dns; [211.29.133.14] Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.7.1 URL(s) listed in multi.surbl.org: 104.175.85.209' (delivery attempts: 0) Reporting-MTA: dns; outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au Received: from unknown (HELO hp-pav-8984) ([124.170.165.12]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 08 Jun 2008 11:53:34 +0800 Received: from unknown (HELO hp-pav-8984) ([124.170.165.12]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 08 Jun 2008 11:53:34 +0800 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20080608135329.00a70358@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: john.mail@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:53:29 +1000 To: petermead@optusnet.com.au """"""""" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 09:22 PM 8/4/2008 +0800, you wrote: >39 of our listers with optusnet addresses have today been unsubscribed >automatically because optusnet appears to have set it's filters to consider >Rootsweb traffic as spam. > >Most other Australian lists are experiencing the same problems. > >So if there are any listers with optusnet addresses still subscribed to this >list can I suggest you contact optus & request Rootsweb addresses be >"whitelisted" ASAP? > >I will of course manually resubscribe all optusnet listers but not until the >fairies at optus remove the blocks on our messages. > >Kim >List Admin > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >