Re: opensrs renewal reminder SMTP server blackholed by Spamcop?

From: Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 22:38:46 EST


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:<12683682.0.30Nov2002215728@mp.opensrs.net>
>><<< 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
abuse@tucows.com and postmaster@tucows.com. 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
postmaster@tucows.com have bounced. (This is not a good sign for a
company that aims to run a public e-mail service.)

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies



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