I hate spammers just as much as the next person. Yes, I am happy that there are news laws in place that try to protect people from spam. I also think that technology and organizations who try to stop spam are wonderful. However, I do get quite annoyed when I don't receive email or email that shouldn't go in my spam or junk folder goes there. I can handle that though.
What really got me is when I found out email from a domain name that I own had been black listed by Spamhaus. Luckily for me some of the email addresses that rejected these messages sent me a reply notifying me about this. I was wondering why my domain name had been blacklisted since I do not send spam.
It had nothing to do with anything I had done but my domain shared the same IP address with somebody who had sent spam. According to Spamhaus there was really nothing I could do on my end but contact my web hosting company. My web hosting company isn't too sure what the problem is since the email itself wasn't even sent though their server but instead the text of the email mentioned the domain that shared this IP address. This is the spam report in question.
I guess I am not the only person who has been affected by the mistakes on Spamhaus. While trying to research is I ran ac cross an interesting article called Those Spamhaus Bastards. I'm sure there are plenty of other Spamhaus victims who don't even know they have been affect by the mistakes of Spamhaus yet. I just really hope my issue gets cleared up soon!!!!
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