On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:32, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> This post has nothing to do with the sewer laid fibre cable but IPs that are
> treated as being sources of spam.
> My ISP has issues with their IP ranges more because of having a wide open
> smtp server, what recourse do I have with them when they do not resolve the
> issue?

If you can't teach them, then you will have to change providers.

You can always try to get your assigned IPs whitelisted, but that involves getting the folk who run the black lists to NOT treat whole allocations as spam sources, which in my experience is more difficult than switching providers.

Fortunately, sane RBL maintainers only block the actual IPs, not the whole blocks, so it's easy to get around it if you get assigned a static IP (which may even be from a different block!).