Earthlink and Spamhaus: closing down the Internet

Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Ruben

“SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM: SIZE=3060:
host mx00-dom.earthlink.net [my mail servers STATIC IP address]:
550 550 Dynamic/zombied/spam IPs blocked.”

Following on from my rant the other day I have read about more and more people who are stuggling to legitamately communicate with people on or from Earthlink connections. Spamhaus, who are part of an anti spam organisation think it’s legitamate to block those of us on dynamic (DHCP) IPs, that means, everyone sitting at home or in a small office using broadband. If you choose to use your own domain name (like ALL businesses) to send mail to your customers, then Earthlink in their wisdom think you are a spammer.

So, my prediction of the day is that Earthlink along with their equally misguided & equally unhelpful buddies at Spamhaus are slowly closing the doors on communication with Earthlink customers.

So either, Earthlink becomes a closed community that can not communicate with the outside world, or, they choose to stay in business by thinking more logically about their ’spam’ policy.

All I want to do is to email customers I have who use Earthlink. So either the policy stays as it is, I loose my customers, or my customers, finding it hard to talk to anyone listed as having a dynamic IP address, move to somewhere more business focused.

I get the impression that there is a bunch of smart-arsed tech heads who think they are in control here. They will be in control washing cars in a while if they carry on the way they are.

Rant Over….