Bellsouth basically told me they were blocking Pair Networks because the percentage of spam vs non-spam is around 75 - 80%. They say they are communicating with them on this. Supposedly there was a conference telephone call this past Thursday 09-22-2005. BS says they must reduce this spam amount for the block to be removed.
Pair seems to think it is mostly domain customers forwarding their mailboxes to their BS dot Net email accounts.
Yes, this is quite clearly the case; there are dozens of mutual customers who have forwarding rules setup. We are not generating Spam to send to Bellsouth; it's coming from somewhere else and then being forwarded. I imagine that at some time in the future, forwarding e-mail might become impractical, if receiving systems insist on parsing it as originated or relayed Spam.
This the first I've heard of BS having a 50/5 threshold limit.
Bellsouth has given us no statistics, no logs, no headers, not even a timeframe for their vague claims. We can clearly see from our side that we are not generating nor relaying Spam. But our customers can no longer choose to forward their e-mail to Bellsouth. It seems that Bellsouth is restricting its customers. Kevin