For some reason we got blocked by spamcop. Even though its in developmental stages, it appears lots of ISPs are using it, or at least some bigger ones are just reporting to it (but not using it for mail blocking purposes). After not receiving any notifications from spamcop to our postmaster account, nor any to the sender of the MTA that used spamcop, I tried contacting them via email to find out why we were blocked. Still nothing. Eventually one of the senders got a bounce with a link in it for spamcop and they sent it along to me. In the end, the problem was that someone sent spam to someone on our network, with a reply address of another ISP. We bounced the spam because it was an unknown user, and the ISP it bounced to interpreted the bounce as being spam since the message was attached to the email, thus adding us to spamcop. I think this is a serious flaw in the way spamcop works and I suggest anyone using it or thinking about using it to re-evalute because of our situation.
If you find yourself getting on spamcop and you know for a fact you're not sending spam, check the subject line of their info-stripped report on the spamcop website to see if its a bounce subject. I've been pulling my hair out for the last week nearly knowing that we weren't a source of spam, but still having a slight doubt about our co-lo clients on (gag) exchange. Bah. Have a good weekend all. Billy Kimble, System Administrator ebase, LLC -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 1/28/2004
