We usually use RBL for blocking out spam and it works great. Of course some peoples emails do not get through once in a while, but that's a drawback we must deal with.

Today we had to turn off the RBL because of an important emailw e needed to let get through. Within two hours all our boxes were flooded, and to make matters worse a hosting company http://www.hostingisus.com/ has sent each of our boxes the same email like 5 times.

I do not mind unsolicited emails, but when a host emails every box under your domain with the same offer more than once, and you have been a webhost since 1996 it really becomes irritating :angry:

Tsk...tsk...tsk...can't wait to get that RBL back on :)

They may be a reseller for elite-domains because that is where they are pulling their support FAQs from:

http://www.elite-domains.com/domain_support.html

Either way, they're not very bright. I can understand all those one-shot Viagra sellers who can just pick up and move, but anyone who sits behind a static IP and spams either from (or with spam containing the URL of) their own servers is putting themselves in a really bad place. Some "ISPs" (generally private community, university and larger businesses) are already using RBLs to block at their own routers so nobody behind them can even view those sites. If this becomes a common practice, the spammer's own sites will eventually be getting blocked from the same people they're trying to sell to. :rolleyes:

Alvin,
You are not alone...we received them in groups of 5 or 6 to each e-mail....

hate spam!

Man I know how you feel. We recently droped rejecting RBLs and changed it to warning only. Here comes the flood of spam and its really annoying. The only reason we changed is because a couple clients were complaining and simply adding them to the list of reject_accept didn't do the trick. I need to have mail unrestricted to one account on the domain so I can't just add a filter via the server and my email client won't block email from words in the header.. so spam it is :(

Flood them back :)