<div>Actually that's what I do most often - though I've NEVER paid to delist - only requested; and that's always gone through. Happened a few years back when Yahoo's mail service blocked off my IP (though my volume of mail to Yahoo was significant good mail) - one polite email requesting a delisting was all it took!</div>
<div> </div><div>My IPs (all of them, even the ones that are not MX or A records - could be NS or others) are clean - there's no reason that shouldnt happen.</div><div> </div><div>Overall I'd say Spamhaus is one of the most cooperative, positive experience I've ever seen. Wish everyone (DNSBL community) were more like them... </div>
<div> </div><div>-C<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Let me ask you a question. Did you actually face significant volumes of lost mail from those "pay to delist" blocklists?<br>
<br>
Or was this a case of looking up your IP on say <a href="http://mxtoolbox.com" target="_blank">mxtoolbox.com</a> and figuring out "oh no, I am blocked, let me get out of every single blocklist that mxtoolbox says that I'm on?"<br>
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--srs (iPad)<br>
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On 28-Mar-2013, at 18:23, "Carlos A. Afonso" <<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 03/28/2013 01:52 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:<br>
> [...]<br>
>> In particular please see section 2.2.5 on conflict of interest which<br>
>> says that while a dnsbl may be run as a commercial proposition by<br>
>> charging a fee from sites that use it, it MUST not charge for the<br>
>> removal of a listing, as this "steers periliously close to notions of<br>
>> extortion, blackmail or a protection racket".<br>
><br>
> This is a RFC recommendation typically not followed. In at least two cases we were asked for money to have the IP removed from their blacklist. In one case, they would remove for free only seven days after the request, unless we were willing to pay US$100.<br>
><br>
> frt rgds<br>
><br>
> --c.a.<br>
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