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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