I agree with you. Whoever controls that list has a power over the email industry. I am just in the middle of reading "Enshitification" book form Corey Doctorow and I can only imagine the power of controlling such list. BTW: this is a Canadian author. I strongly recommend this book to anyone in the tech world or even around it. Very Good On Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 17:20 Katie via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > Thank you all for this input/discussion, it's very interesting. In my > case, the relevant blacklists were: > UCEPROTECTL2 > UCEPROTECTL3 > > Which are both classified as "low severity", but I have been having > problems even with being blacklisted on "low severity" lists. As > mentioned, it's being monitored now.. > > I do wonder, at what point is being blacklisted considered a > business-level "attack" or malicious activity against a small or medium > business? It seems anti-competitive to me. > > -Katie > > > On 2025-12-21 15:14, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:02:50 -0400 > > Jean-Francois Messier via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > > > >> We were told that entire IP subnet were blacklisted and you are > >> right: some subnet aren't blacklisted - for now..... by Google and > >> other email providers. In that respect, OVH seems to have a bad > >> reputation on email providers. > > > > Yes, OVH generally has a bad reputation, not because OVH is bad, but > > because anyone can set up a VPS and they don't filter SMTP. > > > > I was assigned my IP while I was still running Roaring Penguin and I > > knew my way around the various postmaster tools from Google, MSFT et > > al. and did my best to make sure they would not block my IP. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dianne. > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to > > linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > >