Spam blocklists and company due diligence
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They are collectively listing class C subnets instead of the offending IP addresses and they are using their clout to cast aspersions on my mail server.
My IP address is contained within that group but I neither use nor have any association with it from a standpoint of mail servers and email in particular.
I simply exist within a larger list of Spectrum customers containing an offender ON ANOTHER EMBEDDED SUBNET which isn't me.
They simply must feel that it's a convenient break down regardless of that travesty of the false listing it includes.
A person who sends less than 50 or so emails a year can hardly be a spammer, serious or otherwise.
I noticed the problem when yahoo.com returned an email to me and I decided to do a reputation check.
All I can say for yahoo-hole is they should clean up their own act before involving themselves in mine.
Now I am all for spam block lists. HOWEVER, they should not be including the innocent just because of some arbitrary unit of measurement put into place as a matter of convenience.
I removed Spamhaus from my mail server configuration. After all, with friends like Spamhaus (and yahoo.com) I don't need any enemies.
Irresponsible and lacking due diligence has become the name of the internet game anymore.