Sometime recently Hotmail's servers have decided to block the server belonging to the Cotswold Canals Trust. The reason and precise date of blocking is impossible to determine, the server sends very little traffic into Hotmail, under 500 mails per month at present.
This server sends the members' newsletter every few weeks (there were 18 editions in 2011), so Hotmail subscribers will not be receiving these until the block is lifted.
Affected domains are: hotmail.*, msn.com, live.*.
Traffic from the webshop is temporarily being routed via another machine so these will reach their destination. The boilerplate reply from Hotmail:
Your IP was blocked by Windows Live Hotmail because the majority of all the email that you send has been judged to be spam by our internal filtering system.
The Spaminess or otherwise can be assessed by visiting the Newsletter Archive.
UPDATE: 25th May - We are now using an alternate server, so subscribers will again receive their newsletters. Subscribers should check their Junk folder, for any non-spam mails.
UPDATE: 3rd November - We are now back using the Cotswold Canals Trust server, as the block has been lifted (some time ago possibly) by our friends at Hotmail.
Traffic from the webshop is temporarilybeing routed via another machine so these will reach their destination.
The boilerplate reply from Hotmail:
Your IP was blocked by Windows Live Hotmail because the majority of all the email that you send has been judged to be spam by our internal filtering system.The Spaminess or otherwise can be assessed by visiting the Newsletter Archive.
UPDATE: 25th May - We are now using an alternate server, so subscribers will again receive their newsletters. Subscribers should check their Junk folder, for any non-spam mails.
UPDATE: 3rd November - We are now back using the Cotswold Canals Trust server, as the block has been lifted (some time ago possibly) by our friends at Hotmail.