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Spam blacklist snafu wreaks global gnashing of teeth |
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Many email users around the world have been unable to send messages because of ongoing technical problems with a popular service designed to prevent spam from reaching its intended destination.
The problems at SORBS — short for the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System — began on Wednesday and continued into much of Thursday, said Michelle Sullivan, who founded the real-time blacklisting service in 2002 and sold it to GFI Software last year. As a result, messages sent from a huge number of legitimate mail servers were labeled as junkmail and returned to sender.
The widespread outage caused migraines for sales and support staff around the world, as this ongoing Twitter feed demonstrates.
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