The problem with the so-called "spam cops" is for reasons like this. Innocent people get put on a blacklist either because someone submitted their IP to them, or they get wild carded.
Where I work we get put on blacklists once in a while. We have never sent out spam. The only addresses we have are the ones people have submitted on our site. When people fill out the forms on our website it clearly says they will added to our list of email addresses we send out regular information emails to. They have the option to opt out of it, but instead of clicking on a link to opt out, they submit us to spam cops instead. Kind of like instead of telling the salesman they are not interested, they pull out a gun and shoot them. All you need to do is submit an IP to these sites and they will blacklist it. Most require no reason at all. Anyone can do it. We were also blacklisted once because they spam cop blocked a entire subnet of addresses that our web hosts uses. That was really wonderful. Those sites are worthless and no one should be using them. ~!M -----Original Message----- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Black listed According to openrbl.org http://openrbl.org/ip/198/7/192/10.htm Aye.net is blacklisted by these folks. http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/formmail.html It would help me if you gave me the IP address that you say are listed. imcu.com doesn't appear to be. -----Original Message----- From: David McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Black listed Nope. I am just a simple Credit Union with simple users. Nothing fancy like spam lists or otherwise. ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Sojka To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: RE: Black listed Are you currently or have you ever been a member of a spamming operation? -----Original Message----- From: David McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Black listed I don't understand this. I have an ISP att.net and they have given my DSL Router a static IP. I have a PIX firewall and the address there is static. My Internet email is provided by Aye.Net. They have received my list IP's from the Router and Firewall as Black Listed. I have gone to the three sites they say they retrieved the black listings from and I see my two IP's on the list resolving back to my ISP. But I don't see why the IP's are Black Listed. Can anyone explain this and how I can prevent it from happening again. (My Company is on probation with the email provider to find out the cause of this black listing.) My Exchange server resides on the internal side of the firewall. It does not have Internet Mail Connector added. Exchange is 5.5 sp4 on a NT 4.0 Sp6a. Any help is appreciated. Humor is welcomed at this moment. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
