RS Feedback blocked "for abuse"

This morning I sent a feedback message to another RS curator and soon after got a nasty message from the curator's email service saying that my message had been "blocked for abuse."

[quote]Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-38.112.168.200 blocked by
ldap:ou=rblmx,dc=worldnet,dc=att,dc=net
550 Blocked for abuse. See [/quote]

I" class="bold plain" rel="nofollow">http://www.att.net/general-info/rblinquiry.html"
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I followed the link, and the gist of it said that when one uses a "small or questionable" email service, one risks mixing your legitimate message with a high proportion of spam coming from other users of the same service. "If the proportion of spam to good mail from a particular sender is high (which you will have no control over)," the explanation continues, "*all* messages from that sender's address may get blocked including yours."

Is AT&T being tetchy (as opposed to techy) or is there really a large amount of spam now coming from RS feedback? (Or is the server that RS uses becoming compromised?)

An unpleasant side-effect is that the nasty message also discloses the recipient's real e-mail address, so that if I really were a spammer I could now inundate that poor person with penis-enlarging BOGO offers.

Anyone want a free gift certificate from Bath and Body Works?

I have found that some of the email service blocks are done by blocking everthing sent from a certain IP address which in a lot of cases my only be a relay station.

I have had that happen when attempting to email a friend who has comcast and since my hughes-net internet gets downloaded to verious ip's around the USA that often have been used as a relay for certain spammers I have had my emails blocked.

I ended up contacting the company to get unblocked as well as having the person I was emailing complain to her company.

I've received the same email too. I thought it was just a Comcast problem so I changed my email address. I got the same email again. (I was sending myself tests to see if bounce-backs would occur using 4 different email addresses and 3 different computers.)

I'm guessing there's something crazy going on with RS's server.