[Sca-cooks] I'm BAAAACCKK!!! BWAHAHA!!

[Elaine Koogler]

And I have to say that I've missed you all terribly!!!  Thanks for getting
it fixed.  Now we're going to see if this address works (my new one) or if I
have to use the old one and try changing it again.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
To: <countgunthar at hotmail.com>; <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] I'm BAAAACCKK!!! BWAHAHA!!


> Hi everyone!
>
> The damn broke! Yay!
>
> Kinda no one's fault- I maded more noise and more noise and someone
> finally talked to the sysadmin at EFN, and this is what they tell me
> this morning:
>
> > Ansteorra.org's mailserver, mail.ansteorra.org, has the IP address
> > 216.62.214.29, which has a reverse-DNS name that resolves somewhere
> > in dsl.austtx.swbell.net (that is, one gets different answers if one
> > looks it up by name to get the address, or by address to get the name).
> > This forward- and reverse-DNS inconsistency can create problems, it
> > would be for the best if they could get swbell.net to delegate
authoritative
> > reverse DNS to them.
> > Moreover, due to trouble we'd had with spammers in
.dsl.austtx.swbell.net
> > and due to swbell.net's failure to do anything about them, we had been
> > blocking incoming mail from mailservers in that address space.  I have
> > removed the block, hopefully we won't be subjected to more spam; if we
> > find ourselves obliged to resume such blocking, ansteorra.org can avoid
> > it at their end by either:
> >
> > 1. getting authoritative reverse-DNS for their address space; or
> > 2. configuring their mailserver to route its outgoing mail thru
> >    swbell.net's primary mailserver as a smarthost.
>
> Wasn't Ansteorra.org- was swbell.net! A MIDDLEMAN! AHA!
>
> Mail appears to be working this morning, which is very lovely! La la
> la...
>
> Gunthar, I can send you the contact info for the sysadmin if you need
> it.
>
> Love you all- it's GREAT to be back!
>
> 'Lainie
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