On Tuesday, 17-12-2024 at 06:08 Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2024 08:09:08 am Poon Weng Chee wrote:
> > Dear Debian,
> >
> > We have discovered that the public IP address of deb.debian.org, which is
> > used to access the Debian repositories, is listed as a threat or malicious
> > IP address on http://brightcloud.com/support/lookup.php.
> > Despite attempting to submit this IP address for removal from the threat
> > list, it has been repeatedly reclassified as a threat or malicious IP
> > address within a one to two day timeframe.
> > We suspect that your public IP address may be under attack or being misused
> > by others. We would appreciate it if you could investigate this matter
> > further.
>
> That kind of thing can be SO annoying...
>
> I was having a great deal of trouble exchanging emails with one particular
> individual a while back. Tracing out the trouble it turned out to be this
> kind of thing. Reportedly the mail servers that my hosting company was using
> also had malicious users that were generating this nonsense, and I was being
> hit with the result. Their suggestion was "try again later" when I'd
> possibly (but not for sure) end up connecting to a different mail server.
Many email server providers allow users to specificy specific email addresses
that are permitted, by passing their spam filters. This feature has helped me
out one time.
>
> I ended up changing hosting companies, and the problem went away.
>
> --
> Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
> ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
> be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
> -
> Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
> M Dakin
>
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