Are IP address is off the black list. I was actually able to send e-mail within a few hours of submitting my removal request. Talking to my roomie, I learned the problem computer only ran for a few hour before it was shutdown. Clearly, the blacklists are quite sensitive--which is good. I used
this link to check on the status of our IP, but also tried Hef's link left in the comments. Since I keep a separate e-mail address for everyone, I don't run a check against blacks myself. If I start getting SPAM, I delete the address and tell that person to run a spyware check. I still see the mail server logs rejecting e-mail for addresses that have been dead for 8 years (addresses I've posted on Usenet with the "remove this" in the address).
Since SPAM isn't an issue for me, the most annoying things I get in e-mail are news letters and advertisements from companies I recently made purchase from. New Egg is one of the worst. Every time you buy something, they automatically place you back on the advertisement list. When you request off the list, you are off until you buy something else. They are not the only ones to do this--but one of the companies I buy from rather regularly where I see this happening. I'd say something about how this likely annoys customers, but I'm not the picture of a "typical" anything. I see very few advertisements. I don't listen to the radio, don't own a TV, throw away all junk mail before opening it, don't get SPAM and I run adblocking software on my web browser. I make a point out of not buying anything I see intrusively advertised--that is, if a billboard distracts me enough while driving so I see what it's advertising for, I make a point not to buy that product from that company. I personally feel that advertising of this nature is intrusive, and companies that take part in it don't deserve my business. The only advertisements I do support are ads in Google searches. If I'm looking to buy a gizmo, type it into Google and see ads for companies selling it, I'm going to buy it from one of them. Googles ads are not as intrusive--they are highlighted and/or off to one side and only text--and I don't have a problem with that. Kinda wish more companies would take that kind of approach.