[nylug-talk] Mail servers on dynamic IP addresses soon to be shunned nearly everywhere.

Ron Guerin ron at vnetworx.net
Sun Feb 4 01:07:21 EST 2007


Ruben Safir wrote:

> I don't know.  For some insane reason NYLXS ends up in the bulk bin of yahoo,
> but I've gotten to the point where I really just don't care.  If Yahoo is stupid
> let them be stupid.  I've had static IP addresses for almost 8 years now and I
> pay good money for them.  Our reverse DNS is also correct.

I'm not entirely clear, do they think you're on a dynamic address, or
are they spambinning your mail for some other reason?  I know our RSVP
confirmations are ending up in the spam folder at Hotmail from recent
reports.  But I'm pretty sure that's based on content analysis, rather
than server IP address.

> And more often than not I don't want to talk to you if your 
> using Yahoo mail ;)

There's no small number of people who consider Yahoo's operation to be
blackhat.

- Ron



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