[Sysadmin] site blocked?

[William Anderson]

Hi,

a mailing list server (lists.evolt.org) which I am subscribed to appears to
have been blocked by the well's mail servers.  I noticed that I hadn't
received mail from the lists since about 7am UTC (midnight PDT), and on
connecting to the SMTP port manually, I get this:

[neuro neuro]$ telnet smtp.well.com 25
Trying 206.14.209.7...
Connected to smtp.well.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp.well.com ESMTP Mail Server watching your every move; Mon, 19 May
2003 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT); NO UCE
EHLO evolt.org.uk
250-smtp.well.com Hello acornparenting.org [216.40.227.23], pleased to meet
you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
MAIL FROM: neuro at evolt.org.uk
250 2.1.0 neuro at evolt.org.uk... Sender ok
RCPT TO: neuro at well.com
550 5.7.1 neuro at well.com... mail from 216.40.227.23 rejected.  Contact
rejected at well.com for more info (03)
QUIT
221 2.0.0 smtp.well.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.


Could I be told why this host has been blocked?  I'm an administrator on the
server, so it would be interesting to know, and to close out any issues so
that I can start receiving mail again.

Thanks.

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