On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:22:54 PDT, goemon@anime.net said:
Seems rather unwise to filter your abuse mailbox.
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <abuse@btopenworld.com> (reason: 554 Message not allowed - UP Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-04.html [120])
I'm not sure which is worse: 1) That they filter their abuse mailbox. 2) That they outsource their abuse mailbox (and potentially others) to Yahoo. 3) That they're doing (2) and they're apparently a few orders of magnitude bigger than "Joe's Bait, Tackle, and Internet Emporium". "And they wonder why we block their e-mail.." -- the NANOG lurker in the next cubicle, standard response when a site's demonstrated configuration clue level is so low to render constructive dialog improbable.