Comments on: Email Fascism by Linux Magic – Wizard Tower Technoservices

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:49:24 +0000

The people at Wizard Tower are indeed insane. Their Account Manager is a self-serving know it all, and Michael is diluted. They believe they have the answers to SPAM, however you are correct in persuming they won’t be around much longer. A company with narrow visions, and a poorly managed infrastructure is doomed to failure.

Good review. Mipspace is a joke.

By: K

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:23:43 +0000

My host finally found me an IP that was not on the mipspace list, but alas, it appeared on the list again in short order. Said host is moving me to a new server later this month … I plan to watch the IP like a hawk and “encourage” my (rather large) host to stay on top of any future removal requests.

I’d be curious of Matt’s (posting above) IP from which he posted.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:45:55 +0000

The fact you used a fake email address for your comment says it all.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:36:51 +0000

Mipspace ratings don’t just randomly get bad for no reason. If you’ve been listed negatively then it’s for a reason. If you don’t want to be seen as a spam company for your personal emails then use a separate IP for those you send out in bulk.

It’s like you got a bad credit rating for missed payments by your kid on a shared credit card and then complaining to a 3rd-party investor they won’t give you a loan. Not only is the rating not the investor’s making but you really shouldn’t have let your kid use the same card if you weren’t prepared to risk the consequences of a bad rating caused by him. I would ignore you too.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:09:52 +0000

Yep, there IS nothing the admin can do. Some pencil pusher decides to go with a company like Linux Magic without understanding how people will be negatively affected. Since it’s such a small minority, they just don’t care, but if that minority gets vocal enough, and more visible bloggers than I would tackle the issue, companies like Wizard Tower Technoservices would HAVE to clean up their act.

By: K

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:28:11 +0000

Doug says:

“I keep running into more messages blocked by these systems. The latest are pioneercable.net and murray-ky.net. I do try to let the ISP know but most of the time my message is also blocked.”

I walked into the office of one of those two ISP’s and complained. The admin ‘looked into it’ and told me there was nothing he could do. Typical municipal utility provider

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:25:19 +0000

Sometimes I’m not sure whether a comment is legitimate or not, and this is one of those times. I’m not clear on how this post might cost me customers, but I would welcome an explanation…

By: berk walker

berk walker — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:56:45 +0000

You will NEVER know how many customers you might have lost. Find some friends more in the “effective use of force” mindset that you are. Several areas of creativity would be useful.

You can itch & moan, or you can bring it on. Be serious or give it up.
b-

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:47:15 +0000

Thanks so much for that, Doug!

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:30:06 +0000

I keep running into more messages blocked by these systems. The latest are pioneercable.net and murray-ky.net. I do try to let the ISP know but most of the time my message is also blocked.

Funny that the ISPs using this system aren’t blocked themselves since most of them send commercial messages.

By the way, I did run across some new information (I think) on the BMS page. They give a list of the blacklists they provide with links to each. http://www.linuxmagic.com/products/bms