[Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering (by Raven's ISP?)

[James]

As you can probably tell from my email address, I try to filter out as 
much spam as I can - however, it's easy to get "friendly fire". 

I just hit this issue when emailling Raven - her mail server bounced my 
mail with an error referring me to http://banned-for-spamming.us/ - if you 
look, you'll find her ISP has blocked my ISP (1m customers) - and EVERY 
company in Japan (*.co.jp) for "spamming". Oh, and the ban appears to be 
permanent, unless you contact them by snail-mail (not online) to object!

(It's also pretty rude: "553 ##### YOU HAVE BEEN SHIT-LISTED **..." - 
hardly a helpful message to send other Net users!

Among others, they have blocked ALL mail from: Chello, the largest cable
ISP in Holland; Rogers cable; CharterPipeline; *.co.jp;  Eudoramail.com;
GMX; the University of Waterloo, Canada; Wanadoo, France's broadband ISP -
with filters like that, does ANY mail get through?!


James.