Between 9am and 10am ET this morning mail from PW Classifieds to multiple servers began to be delayed and in some cases rejected to multiple domains. This is because spamhaus has blacklisted a wide range of Amazon EC2 servers, which is where the PW Classifieds is housed. Replies to your ads show up under ‘My Ads’, as described on the FAQ.

I’ve contacted tech support at Amazon. They are aware of the issue and are working to clear it up as soon as is possible. In the meantime, please check ‘My Ads’ for responses to your ads.

UPDATE 15:25 My understanding is that as of about 3pm this afternoon the root cause of the problem has been resolved. Amazon’s automated communication with one of the major black lists had failed, and needed to be updated manually. It may take some time for the delayed email to be delivered. I would still recommend that if you have ads listed, you carefully inspect the ‘My Ads’ area in order to make sure you didn’t miss any responses.

I’ll continue to monitor the flow of mail to make sure that things are returning to normal. I’m also going to look into ways to minimize this sort of problem in the future. My apologies to all of you, and thank you for your patience.

Thanks,
Chris