<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 13/10/2010, at 3:59 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>In the last few jobs I've had, I never even bothered to get in touch with SORBS for delisting because of this advertised 'not-negotiable' fee.</div><div>I had previously attempted contact for de-listing, but it had gone totally ignored, or at least we didn't receive a response to it, and we sure as hell weren't about to pay some one holding us to ransom.</div><div><br></div><div>We informed our customers to tell the people who were unable to send them email that they needed to tell whomever was hosting their sending MTA to stop using SORBS.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, its obvious SORBS has fallen out of favour with alot of networks, I suspect mostly due to inaccurate data because how difficult its traditionally been to get de-listed.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck Michelle... I sincerely hope you can make SORBS a better experience for us poor network operators.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><snip></font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>It was there to give us an option to refuse someone if we thought they <br>were not playing the game (either they are a spammer, or don't care as <br>long as they got delisted). We never advertised the fact because <br>everyone would be demanding 'free delisting'.<br><br>Michelle<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>