At 3/6/03 9:01 AM, Edward Gray wrote:
>Early this morning the opensrs mail system that is used for sending OpenSRS
>domain renewal notifications was
>blacklisted by SpamCop.
>
>This has happened several times in the past specifically with SpamCop. This
>occurs because a registrant receives the renewal notice and in error, flags
>it as a Spam message with SpamCop. We are required to send at least 2
>renewal notices to the owner of every domain as per the ICANN Registrar
>Accreditation Agreement.
Yep, some of them are incorrectly reported domain name renewal notices:
http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=216.40.33.45
It looks like SpamCop has manually delisted the system, which is good.
Note that SpamCop will take action against one of their users who
incorrectly reports messages as spam, preventing the same person from
causing the same problem in the future. So in this case, TUCOWS should
report these kinds of "spam reports" to a SpamCop deputy:
http://spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/167.html
Although there is no "list" involved, pointing out that the person does
in fact own a domain name should be sufficient to get the user's SpamCop
access revoked, which will at least prevent these particular people from
doing it again.
While I was there, I noticed something disturbing at:
http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=216.40.33.61
This spam report appears to be some kind of promotional message from
Domain Direct. It appears from the headers that the offending message was
sent to an address "@whois.gkg.net", which is only used for GKG.net WHOIS
listings. (It was probably sent to the WHOIS address listed for
kairosnet.com.)
So on the face of it, it appears that Domain Direct was sending messages
to addresses harvested from WHOIS.
I assume that's not actually what happened, because it's too monstrous to
believe :-) -- but there's something odd going on there that TUCOWS
should probably investigate.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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