Removing Site from Spam Filters and ISP Blocks?

Blaine Garrett asks: "I run a small online art community called the Art Attack. A lot of my members that sign up are not getting their welcome emails and newsletters. Most often, I cannot even directly email the members. Services such as hotmail automatically put email from my server in the junk mail folder. A while back someone was using the server to bounce spam. I am not sure if this is the direct cause, or not. Is there away to get off the spammer lists of these big services? Additionally, I have been informed that, since the site contains art depicting nudity, ISPs have been blocking the IP of my server. This is rather annoying since I also provide web hosting for other sites on the server. I'm losing customers and hits. Is there a way around this?" With respect to the Spam lists, this article might be helpful, but it may be harder to get the server removed, considering it has already been marked as an open relay. It will be harder to get your server out of ISP Filters, however. One man's "art" can always become another man's "porn", and convincing them otherwise will be difficult to impossible, especially since there is nudity on the site. What suggestions do you have for Mr. Garret, in terms of helping him get his site off of as many lists as possible?

Comments

heh

[revmoo]

What suggestions do you have for Mr. Garret, in terms of helping him get his site off of as many lists as possible?

The only real surefire way to accomplish this, as many organizations have found out harshly is that one must sell their soul to the devil.

Now, this may sound drastic, but the soul is at an all-time high on the SIN(Soul INdex), so now might be a good time to get that management position as well, while you're at it.

It's simple

[Pathwalker]

All you have to do is repeat this question as a post in the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email.

This group is inhabited by a bunch of friendly and good natured people who will happily help you solve your email problems.

You might take a bit of good natured ribbing, especially if your mail server is still an open relay, but just play along, and join in the fun.

Your email worries will be over in no time!

Re:It's simple

[mvpll]

Don't forget to mention that you actually enjoy recieving the odd piece of unsolicited email and don't understand why some people throw a pink fit when they get one or two a day.