>Actually, Spamcop *DOES* work that way sometimes, and in this particular >case, it did. House of Fusion was blacklisted because of DNS and >hostname issues, as Michael has already pointed out. Yes, a month ago. So why are they having problems now?
>When I looked up the IP address, it said it was the DNS mismatch that >caused it to be blacklisted, because spamcop feels that any mail server >trying to masquerade as another host with a different IP address is >probably a spammer. Yes, the IP was for mail.houseoffusion.com and the header said houseoffusion.com. Intelligent software would be more lenient in such a case or at least give it a flag to be checked rather than send it directly to a black hole. >It takes more than "anyone" it takes numerous "someones". One spam >report to spamcop doesn't cause you to get blacklisted. I can easily 'hack' this process and ban anyone I choose. This is one of the reasons I don't use any RBL for my spam checker. I wrote it myself and let me tell you that while it takes a few moments to review some of the subjects, my success rate is 100% blocked with the only mistakes coming from people who send mail without a subject. (red flagged, not deleted, but sometimes deleted by the human eye process.) >I block the spamcop listed email for two main reasons. > >#1 - my users don't want to do their own filtering >#2 - if someone (a person not a list) sends legitimate email and their >mail server is listed in spamcop, they'll get a bounced message that >tells them why. That's actually better than the mail being accepted and Not exactly true. I found out about the problem first from a concerned list member and the spamcop entries I still see to this day are from other peoples mail with no message sent to me as the mail server admin. >I suppose we're *WAY* off topic here =) Actually, yes we are but there is a little more leaway on the weekend. Not much, but enough as long as the talk is still technical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232864 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
