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  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] [Fwd: BL3 Mailing List Again]
  • Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:27:21 +1300

John Beck wrote:
>
> Can someone who maintains the BL list

That's me.

> take a peek at why this gents emails don't let
> him join us in discussions? ;-)
>
> leeforrest AT simple.net

I'll check. But the usual problem is non-membership.
Lots of people try to send stuff (mostly spam) to this
list without joining properly.

> > RCPT TO generated following response:
> > Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname

That's an SMTP issue. Whether it's at the server side
(ibiblio) or the sender's side, I do not know. There's
nothing I can do -- I do not control the SMTP server.

> See? My HELO (entered manually) gives my actual fqdn
> (of the moment) and still gets rejected.

Manually logging into the ibiblio SMTP server is very unusual.
It is *far* beyond what is necessary to subscribe to this list.

> I wonder if 1dial.com is blacklisted there?

I don't know -- I'm not the admin of the ibiblio SMTP server.
However, ibiblio has a lot of mail passing through their servers,
so it wouldn't surprise me if they did some blacklisting.

> I really want to join the list, but there's no way I'm going to
> use that gawdawful web interface.

I wish people would read the instructions before complaining.
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Cheers,
Steven




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