OT: cut off by spamhaus free use?

[Michael Baird]

Yes, don't sign up for the free trial, they will shut your whole
netblock off after the trial period.

Regards
Michael Baird

On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:45 -0500, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Gang,
> 
> Has anybody ever had SpamHaus cut off the free use of DNSBL
> for your site?  All of our inbound email started getting this:
> 
> reject=451 4.4.3 Temporary lookup failure of [IP number] at zen.spamhaus.org
> 
> on Saturday morning.  I removed Zen usage from my sendmail 
> config and my email started flowing in again.  I looked at their 
> usage page (http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html)
> and believe I meet their qualifications (I use caching DNS on our
> sendmail box too).  But maybe they disagree; I haven't heard back.
> 
> Anybody else ever had the rug pulled out from under their email?
> 
> BTW, MailScanner and SpamAssassin are doing a great job of killing
> spam, even without any DNSBL in the mix.  Today's numbers so far:
> 
> Total messages scanned:        23070
> Total spams tagged:            12240
> Total spams delivered:         715
> Total spams deleted:           11612
> 
> Way to go Julian!  We hope you get your new liver for Christmas too.
> 
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College