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evilsee

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I sent a email to a user of absa's internet/email service. Absa use spamhaus.org for there email blacklists.

I got a mail back sating

"host smtpserv.absamail.co.za [196.35.40.11]: 553 Your IP address 196.46.xx.xx is blackholed by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org."

I went to spamhaus.org website an entered a few ip addresses in the same range and the result brought back this:

"
Ref: SBL25918

196.46.64.0/21 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL)

11-Apr-2005 17:04 GMT | SR08

419 sources at wbsmobile.co.za (dynamic)

This block - likely to be dynamic/wireless - started to be a strong source of 419 scams in february 2005.

If you are an end user affected by this block, please do not contact Spamhaus but Wireless Business Solutions (wbsmobile.co.za) and show them this page.
wbsmobile.co.za needs to terminate connections to 419 scammers to have this listing removed.
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I think Iburst need to do something about this, I havent contacted them seeing as how the helpdesk is useless. perhaps someone on the list who knows someone with decision making powers at I*** can get them to fix this.

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evilsee said:
I sent a email to a user of absa's internet/email service. Absa use spamhaus.org for there email blacklists.

I got a mail back sating

"host smtpserv.absamail.co.za [196.35.40.11]: 553 Your IP address 196.46.xx.xx is blackholed by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org."

I went to spamhaus.org website an entered a few ip addresses in the same range and the result brought back this:

"
Ref: SBL25918

196.46.64.0/21 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL)

11-Apr-2005 17:04 GMT | SR08

419 sources at wbsmobile.co.za (dynamic)

This block - likely to be dynamic/wireless - started to be a strong source of 419 scams in february 2005.

If you are an end user affected by this block, please do not contact Spamhaus but Wireless Business Solutions (wbsmobile.co.za) and show them this page.
wbsmobile.co.za needs to terminate connections to 419 scammers to have this listing removed.
"

I think Iburst need to do something about this, I havent contacted them seeing as how the helpdesk is useless. perhaps someone on the list who knows someone with decision making powers at I*** can get them to fix this.

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yeah its old news theres a spammer on the iburst network, the person might not even know thier pc is being used for spamming. SOme other blacklist services have also had some iBurst IPs on it, i've been banned from IRC once or twice because I happened to be using an IP he/she used. But rather than trying to remove IPs from the list all you do is if your IP is blocked, just recconect and get a new one
 
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yes I understand that getting a new ip address will help me, but what happesn when the spammer gets a new ip and then stuffs that one up, then we all suffer soon all of i***'s ips will be blocked.

so they really should do something about it.

also I checked the next two ip address after mine and they were both listed as spammer addresses.

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you can report it to WBS and they can correlate a time with an IP to find an account name and then take action (most likely just cancel the contract or send a warning)
 
I agree of Obelix. You need to relay through the wbs mail server if they allow it.

Most of the spam lists by default block most dynamic IP addresses in the world. This is to stop spammers using ADSL, Sentech, even a dialup account to send spam e-mail. So this isn't WBS's fault. This blocking occurs on Sentech, Telkom, Vodacom, MTN and most overseas ISP's.

Why you are running a mail server on iburst without a static IP is a bit confusing.
 
yeah in the headers it keeps your original hostname, so if i sent my mail through microsoft.com it would still have 196.46.xx.xx inb the headers.

evilsee you gotta report it though dude
 
phoned, them and was told they are aware of the problem. they are currently trying to resolve it

if you look on spamhaus.org. it seems all the ip's from 196.46.64.0 - 196.46.71.255
will have this problem

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