On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:52:53AM -0500 or thereabouts, Pascal Hakim wrote:
> There's a fairly interesting article about teergrubing at:
> http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html
>
> At the moment, I'm guessing that (b) happened. I'm still trying to get
> more information, so it's hard for me to make more than a guess at this
> point however.
I wonder if the issue is similiar to what a branch of the American I.R.S. had
earlier this week, which was discussed on comp.mail.misc. Thread on Google;
<http://www.google.ca/groups?q=group:comp.mail.misc+insubject:ISP+insubject:criteria+insubject:for+insubject:blocking+insubject:mail+insubject:as+insubject:SPAM+insubject:-+insubject:mass+insubject:mailings&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=9&as_minm=8&as_miny=2004&as_maxd=19&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2004&selm=7j04i0h5qlnb3ciga8lc0q36pp02j5c8sr%404ax.com&rnum=1>
TinyURL;
<http://tinyurl.com/4f8k9>
His problem seems to be caused by the major ISPs recently implementing
Greylisting, causing a backup que when sending large volumes outbound.
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Steve
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