On 3/22/02, Mike Kuzenko penned: >One of my customers was reported to spamcop for spamming. > >The email that spamcop sent doesn't give any details other than the evidence >of the spam and that they tracked it to my network.
It's really quite a problem and spamcop doesn't have much of a system for checking the origination or content of messages. For instance, I have a domain hosted with me called leads4life.com. Someone was spamming using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the Reply-To address, which my customer doesn't even use. The spam e-mail had links all through it to the domain freeleads4life.com and the only reference to leads4life.com was the Reply-To address. The e-mail's "From" address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yet I kept getting spamcop reports on it. Quite a pain in the butt responding to all that stuff trying to explain the situation to keep my mail server's good name. My customer's know they can't spam their websites that are hosted with me. I've got better things to do with my time when the e-mails in question have nothing whatsoever to do with me or any sites hosted with me. That brings me to another problem. I found out I was listed in one of the obscure SPAM databases out there, but not really me. Seems the company I colo at has had some spammers in the past and supposedly didn't respond quick enough when complaints were made to them. So now their IP addresses are listed with wild cards, one of them being 216.242.16.*, which contains my small 16 IP address block. When I asked them if they could please list it to get my 216.242.16.192/28 block out of there, since I don't SPAM and don't Relay, the response I got was that I should just go head and find a new colo company. Yea! That's easy to do when you have a contract and a couple hundred websites to move, IP addresses to change, DNS servers to change, blah blah blah. So while I'm firmly against SPAM, I'm also firmly against these holier than thou SPAM databases that can just take it upon themselves to block whoever they darn well please even if it's totally unwarranted. My argument to them was, since they are blocking my mail server because a client of a client of the company that supplies my communication services was spamming, then why don't they just block the entire sprintlink.net IP block since a client of a client of a client of theirs is a spammer. I'd rather see laws put into place and let the end user take care of their own spam problems. Sorry for the rant. But when I don't relay and don't let my customers spam their sites, even from a different mail server, then I shouldn't have to worry about spending half my time trying to stay out of SPAM databases, unsuccessfully I might add. I may as well just open the relay and let them at it if I'm going to be listed anyway, and spend my time making money. -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
