WTF?? Just tryed to E-mail webmaster@barrysworld.com....

[old.glen]

And got this returned

------Transcript of session follows -------
webmaster@barrysworld.com
550 mail from 195.188.53.121 rejected: administrative prohibition (host is blacklisted)

 

[Will]

What is the @... on your email?

 

[old.glen]

Originally posted by ItchyTrigaFinga
What is the @... on your email?

???
what is my @????

my @ is @blueyonder.co.uk

is that what you want?


All i was emailing was:


My thread http://forums.barrysworld.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15930 seems to have gone missing? any idea why???


and it got returned as above?

 

[Nibbler]

Which thread was it?

 

[Summo]

Over the weekend I tried to email my brother (who's on Blueyonder) using my LineOne account and got the same error returned. Same message sent from my BarrysWorld account got through okay.

Looks like Blueyonder have excluded a few ISPs, probably to prevent one or two spamming peeps. Seems excessive and I wonder if they're having problems with their system over the Christmas break.

Might be worth looking at Bluryonder support pages to see if there're any Known Issues posted.

 

[old.glen]

It was the one asking if anyone wanted to join forces with me for the re-vamp of my website,

Whats wrong with asking that?

 

[Will]

Well, it means blueyonder email addresses have been blacklisted for spamming (again). Not by Barrysworld, I can't remember who actually does it. Tried to check the Blueyonder Status Page but it timed out on me.

 

[Nibbler]

Originally posted by glen
It was the one asking if anyone wanted to join forces with me for the re-vamp of my website,

Whats wrong with asking that?

It's a pimp. We don't like pimps here.

 

[Summo]

All is not well in the BY camp.

Their link to the status page is b0rked as well. Go here for status bliss.

 

[Will]

Here is an old example of the problem.

 

[Summo]

Well done, Itchy. Good call-centre munkeh.

I wonder if Blueyonder know about this yet...

 

[Will]

*cough* 0800 953 2000 *cough*

 

[Summo]

Smart-arse.

 

[Will]

I ain't waiting in that queue

 

[Hashmonster]

yeah don't ring them! i rang em earlier to set up my direct debit for my cable modem and i was in the queue for 10mins!

u'd think they'd want my money!

 

[Will]

10 minutes is nothing mate

Though admittedly, the waiting time to speak to me is 0 seconds at the moment. Damn, I'm good.

 

[Summo]

10 mins isn't a lot.

/edit. Bah! Itchy! (God, I'm so bored today...)

 

[Will]

Aye, me too. Blueyonder tech support can have up to a 2 hour wait...

 

[Summo]

Summat to do, I suppose.

/me dials

 

[Will]

Well, you never know, should be quiet today, after all, it is hogmanay.

 

[Summo]

Bah! Bloody foreign holidays...

 

[Will]

Well, if you don't want to celebrate it...

 

[Summo]

Oi! I never said that...

I happen to know that there's a crappy little H-reg Fiesta with a boot full of booze knocking about. Apparently the locks on those things are crap!

Happy Hogmanay, everyone!

 

[Hashmonster]

yeah i know it can be hours for the tech support - been there myself! but for the billing part...?

hunger strikes - need some potatoe wedges!

 

[]SK[]

Wow 10 mins, must be quiet.

Ive waited an hour b4 speaking to someone. Ive also been given a direct like to head tech guy. After 45 mins of being on hold to his phone I rang reception. They said oh that number goes to someone who is on their lunch break. Wasnt impressed.

This was RM.

 

[Summo]

Gah! RM and BT are the worst.

I made work buy me a headset for my desk phone just for when I have to call either of them.

 

[Grimes]

Originally posted by +SA+SerialKilla
After 45 mins of being on hold to his phone I rang reception. They said oh that number goes to someone who is on their lunch break. Wasnt impressed.

LOL that old one
best thing to do with call centres that have 0906 support #'s is find out what their "overseas" support number is. As you can't ring 0906 #'s from outside the UK they generally give out the number to reception.
Pretend your calling from overseas and get cut price tech support.

no point doing this if you already have a local rate or freephone number for support.
but for the ISP's that chage 50p and upwards its worth doing if you know its gonna be a long call

 

[Durzel]

Just to confirm, there's no issue sending email from Blueyonder to @barrysworld.com:

220  Blueyonder SMTP Service
HELO daz
250 OK
MAIL FROM: durzel
250 [email]durzel@blueyonder.co.uk[/email] OK
RCPT TO: <webmaster@barrysworld.com>
250 [email]webmaster@barrysworld.com[/email] OK
DATA
354 Ready for data
Subject: Test email from Blueyonder, please ignore
Testing.
.
250 Message received OK

 

[Durzel]

Hmm, seems it didn't work after all

From: [email]postmaster@blueyonder.co.uk[/email]
To: [email]durzel@blueyonder.co.uk[/email]
Date: 1 Jan 2002 13:52:37 +0000
Message-ID: <010e93752130112PCOW058M@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Nondeliverable mail
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Multipart/mixed;
	 boundary="PCOW058M:AU4n?7AhnKi)jFvsRhvNlh4yMEhgQJ"

------Transcript of session follows ------- 
[email]webmaster@barrysworld.com[/email] 550 mail from 195.188.53.98 rejected: 
administrative prohibition (host is blacklisted)

 

[Trebz]

As far as I know some of blueyonders mail relays have been open at some time or other (haven for spammers) and have hence been added to a blacklist that BW use. BY have been informed afaik and its upto themselves to get removed from the blacklist.