Hi folks, for the last few days, my inbox has filled with bounce messages from various ISP's, the reason, and the reason many of you are not receiving mail from the list, or have "bounced" off the list may be as follows..: Osirisoft.com was part of the SPEWS blacklist service, which got some bad e-press lately because of the way they conducted their service. If one person at an ISP was associated with spamming, they would blacklist the entire ISP and the only way for the users of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) to get un-blacklisted would be for them to switch ISPs or convince their ISP to do whatever SPEWS told them to do. There was no appeals process. Some people got mad at Osirisoft and they have recently been the subject of a DDOS attack. It has been said that the owner of Osirisoft has PERMANENTLY shut down the service and blacklisted the entire Internet. I do not know if this is true. The way the service works, every piece of email sent through the service is checked to see if its origin is on the blacklist. If the entire Internet is blacklisted, then every piece of email sent through the service is rejected as spam. Any ISP filtering email through relays.osirisoft.com must reconfigure to filter through another server or turn off filtering to fix this situation. However, it's hard to contact them to tell them this, since any email sent will be filtered as spam! Hopefully they pay attention and fix it on their own. For reference, check out this link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&mode=thread&tid=111& tid=126 Regards, Fred, ListUncle www.rootsweb.com/~nyessex