We try to handle all the abuse mail and postmaster mail that comes in (for all
of our company owned domains).  I wasn't aware of a problem with bouncing, and
am currently investigating this (as well as working on getting us removed from
the Spamcop list yet again).

Thanks for the heads up all.

Robert L Mathews wrote:
> 
> At 12/1/02 8:28 AM, Paul Gordon wrote:
> 
> >
> >Received a bounce for a renewal reminder email from openSRS to a client who
> >obviously is running SpamCop on their server...
> >
> >>>>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >><<< 550 Mail from 216.40.33.45 refused by blackhole site bl.spamcop.net
> >
> >Someone care to bitch-slap Spamcop?
> 
> The problem is not SpamCop per se, but one or more idiot SpamCop users
> who are reporting their domain expiration notices as spam:
> 
>   http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=216.40.33.45
> 
> The solution for this is for OpenSRS to make sure they're receiving the
> SpamCop notices, then take the action described here:
> 
>   http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/167.html
> 
> This will remove the idiot users from SpamCop, and the problem will go
> away.
> 
> Someone at TUCOWS had better start reading, and handling, e-mail sent to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] TUCOWS is also at fault here;
> this problem would not happen if that mail was properly handled.
> 
> In particular, there is an entry in the SpamCop listing at:
> 
>   http://spamcop.net/sc?track=216.40.33.45
> 
> ... that indicates that 137 of the last 273 messages SpamCop has sent to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] have bounced. (This is not a good sign for a
> company that aims to run a public e-mail service.)
> 
> ------------------------------------
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies

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Adrian Daminato 
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