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Exatt and Digg

It was waiting to happen and it has.

Regular readers would have read a few rants about my internet connection.
I have a “broadband” connection with Exatt.

It works using PPPOE and am assigned a dynamic IP everytime I login.

That is fine, but of late I have been noticing that the IP Addresses are all blacklisted in Spam Databases!

The first time I noticed it was with the latest version of Bad Behavior, when I got blocked out of my own blog. Had to downgrade.

And, today I noticed it with Digg.

Bad IP Address on Digg.com

A spam database lookup for my IP at DNS Stuff finds it in a good number of Blacklists.

I can’t blame Exatt here however, because I am sure that these IPs have been abused by stupid spammers and users with infected computers

I’ve been initiating removals of my IP Address from these lists. But, is there a solution of removing blocks at one shot?

Don’t ask me to contact Exatt for this, because they suck in Customer Care. I don’t think they even know if there is such a thing called Customer Care.

Update:
I wrote to Digg today about the IP address problem. Seems like I was totally mistaken about the reason I was blocked. The reason I was blocked was because I gave UserSubmitter a shot and after a single set of diggs itself, my Digg account was blocked. Digg was kind enough to let me off this time with a warning.

Lesson learnt. Am posting it out here so that all you folks out there will be careful before using such services like UserSubmitter.

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Post Date :: Monday, Oct 9th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Category :: Computers & Technology and Spam
Tags :: connection problems, digg, exatt, internet, Spam
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Comments:

Thilak says:
October 10th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Oh !! That’s too bad.

Your being blacklist for no fault of yours. What are you planing to do ?
Ajay says:
October 10th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Not in a position to do anything. I’ve just been initiating removals from the blacklists.
Thankfully, they have that feature!

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