Verizon blocks GarageGames email
by Rick Overman · 09/22/2005 (3:00 pm) · 8 comments
For all of you using Verizon email address here at GarageGames and have not been receiving emails I just wanted to let you know what has been going on and that it is fixed.
Verizon automatically blacklists send-only mail servers like www.garagegames.com, assuming they are spam zombies. I agree, it is not a very good metric and they have likely blacklisted tens of thousands of valid email sources but it does block all the hundreds of thousands of zombie spammers too.
After sending Verizon a number of emails personally and requesting the assistance of over a hundred GG'ers using Verizon accounts we have been successfully added to their whitelist! Thanks for your assistance.
Verizon automatically blacklists send-only mail servers like www.garagegames.com, assuming they are spam zombies. I agree, it is not a very good metric and they have likely blacklisted tens of thousands of valid email sources but it does block all the hundreds of thousands of zombie spammers too.
After sending Verizon a number of emails personally and requesting the assistance of over a hundred GG'ers using Verizon accounts we have been successfully added to their whitelist! Thanks for your assistance.
#2
09/22/2005 (5:31 pm)
Verizon is notorious for stuff like this. I believe at some point they added Europe to their blacklist. Yes. Europe. The continent. o_O
#3
09/22/2005 (8:27 pm)
I work for a company in the UK and mails from us to Verizon customer generally get eaten. I agree that this is the most appalling way to filter spam ever invented! 
#4
09/22/2005 (8:29 pm)
Putting GG on the white list is probably the only 'nice' thing I've seen Verizon do.
#5
09/22/2005 (9:06 pm)
Sadly, working at a cell phone store with all the major carriers, Verizon has been hands down the easiest and best of the four (Cingular, sprintel, tmobile, verizon) carriers on both customer service and compensating customers for mishaps. It really shouldn't have taken such an effort to get on the whitelist, but it's good that it finally passed. 
#6
09/24/2005 (4:06 am)
All phone companies are operated by crooks and sheisters. The only surprise here is that you managed to get them to listen to you. Good work =-)
#7
You may find that implementing SPF (spf.pobox.com) may help, and makes it easier to get whitelisted in a lot of cases. If you need any help, you can either mail me or there is a help list available with some admins who run much bigger systems than I.
10/01/2005 (12:55 pm)
As a sysadmin, I am fairly tight on spam, all my domains have SPF and I kill SPF fails, subscribing to a number of block lists, and failing anything that does not present a proper HELO, and I still get spam through, though nowhere near as many as I used to. I can see the lure of blocking send only mailservers.You may find that implementing SPF (spf.pobox.com) may help, and makes it easier to get whitelisted in a lot of cases. If you need any help, you can either mail me or there is a help list available with some admins who run much bigger systems than I.
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