[Asrg] blacklists

[SM]

At 09:55 29-01-2008, James Muir wrote:
>I wondered if anyone on the list has had experience in getting an IP 
>address removed from a blacklist.  I am having a very difficult time 
>accomplishing this.

It's usually difficult to get off these blacklists.

>Our department's server was blacklisted on Friday (our reputation is 
>currently listed as "poor") and it is causing a few headaches for us:
>
>http://www.barracudacentral.com/index.cgi?p=lookups&r=1&ip=140.184.76.9

It's a reputation system run by Barracuda Networks.  You'll have to 
contact that about that listing.

>e.g. we can't send email to other machines within the university 
>because they reject messages using the blacklist :-)   We think the 
>reason we were blacklisted is because mailman was sending out reject 
>messages in response to spam sent to one of our mailing lists.

You really have a problem if blacklists used within your university 
block your emails and you cannot fix that internally. :-)

>Has anyone dealt with this before?  Any suggestions on a way to 
>resolve this more quickly?

Contact the company running that blacklist.

Regards,
-sm