Need some help from whoever is in charge of this forum

[Scratch]

Figured... your isp has blocked Dirtrider.net... here is the return receipt (failed)

Doh! How do I get around this?

 

[Okiewan]

Call them and ask that he be removed... doubtful.
Get another ISP.

 

[Scratch]

Call them and ask that he be removed... doubtful.
Get another ISP.

You're joking about getting another ISP right?

What exactly do I say to them when I get them on the phone? To remove DRN from a spam/block list or something?

Great, this is gonna be fun.

 

[Okiewan]

Never really dealt with it before... just tell them they are blocking a site that doesn't spam and you aren't getting important emails?

 

[Scratch]

Ok, I'll give it a shot. Getting on the phone with them now. I'll post up what they tell me.

 

[Scratch]

Well ok, you were right, I'm pretty much screwed. She was speaking all kinds of mumbo-jumbo but the point of it was something to the effect of this site not being hosted by a domain or privately hosted or something like that? Anyway she said I could try contacting a few places like AT&T etc. and try to get it removed but it could be a PITA and a waste of time. So I guess I'll just check threads and PM's the old fashioned way and hunt around for them.

Thanks for trying, sucks that it has to be this way. I know the R1-forum has a bazillion members and they don't get spam blocked or anything so can't really figure out why they would single you guys out. Oh well.


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[theroyz71]

Who's your ISP?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Okiewan - I'm a webmaster of a very large forum and deal with these issues all the time (anti-spam blocking email notifications). One problem that I see you have that will get notifications blocked by many ISP's is that you have no reverse DNS entry for this IP address. Your IP is 67.19.32.101 and if you do a reverse DNS lookup on that IP it resolves to theplanet.com - which is probably your hosting facility. Many ISP's anti-spam software do reverse DNS lookups to be sure that the domain name and the IP address match and if it doesn't it flags it as SPAM. You should be able to contact your host faclity or provider and ask them to create a reverse DNS entry for that IP to point to your domain name and it should be resolved within a day or so.

 

[Crunch]

Just ran across this thread. Found it quite interesting. So what happened? Does the saga continue or did you get it fixed?

 

[Green Horn]

Hell yeah, I wanna know too. I just read throught 4 pages of worthless crap to find NOTHING at the end. I want those 5 min of my life back. Should I call my ISP and tell them they owe ME for the 5 min I spent reading this? :rotfl:

 

[Green Horn]

And another thing. I'm gonna sit here hitting refresh every 5 seconds until someone lets me know how this all was resolved.
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