At 12:42 PM -0700 9/17/01, Global Homes Webmaster wrote:
>On 09/17/01 at 12:21, Warren Michelsen wrote:
>
>> Well, my server (209.145.196.198) has been blacklisted (I know how)
>> but I don't know what blacklist I'm on so I don't know whom to call to
>> get off. What do I do?
>
>Osirusoft has a cool little blacklist checker at
><http://relays2.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi> that checks most of the
>more widely used blacklists. Checking your IP on it turns up empty -- it's not
>on any of the lists that the rbcheck.cgi checks.
>
>> I have clients reporting mail bounces because I'm blacklisted but they don't
>> know which blacklist.
>
>Try to get one of the people who is reporting this to forward the entire
>bounce message, including full headers, to you. People are often confused
>about where bounce messages come from and who's blacklisting whom. It might be
>that your server is blacklisted somewhere, but it might also be that your
>server is the one that's bounced a message due to blacklisting and the sender
>is misinterpreting the bounce message.
As it turns out, that's exactly the case.
As soon as my client said "blacklisted" I panicked. You see, just a few days ago I
received a notice that one of my client sites was "spamvertised". That wasn't the case
as anyone reading the "spam" email could see that the client site was SOLICITED by a
spammer service which sent out a "personalized" email mentioning the domain by name.
The spam was reported to spamcop. Spamcop's automated system assumes that any URL in a
reported spam has just been spamvertised.
I assumed that the spamcop report had gotten me blacklisted somewhere. It hasn't.
Anyway, I appreciate the URL for <http://relays2.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi>.
I'll bookmark it and use it in the future. Thanks.
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