travis' brain dump

So… just and FYI.

If you’re subscribed and you’ve got a hotmail/msn account that you’re using to get your emails from this server… it won’t work. 🙁

Evidently the entire block of IP addresses that this server happens to be on has been blocked by MSN/Hotmail for suspicious spam/virus related activity. After reviewing the logs, it appears that all is well on this server as it has been for years however just a few addresses up the ladder, my former company’s mail server has somehow peed in someone’s wheaties and has gotten the whole subnet added to the list of hate out there.

Kinda lame if you ask me considering that blocking a whole subnet is stupid IMHO. You should only blacklist the IP in question, not all his neighbors. That’s like arresting an entire neighborhood of people because the guy down the street is dealing drugs to elementary school kids.

I think someone at Microsoft needs to be looking for their helmet. 🙂